My Acer laptop says no bootable device and says preparing automatic repair

[l.helmore]

Over the past month my laptop started getting hotter where the fan is located. I was on the net and the laptop just froze and I couldn't class click on anything. After a couple of minutes the screen went black. It stayed black for ages and I rebooted it, then it said preparing automatic repair, and said no bootable device.

 

[Prostar Computer]

Sounds to me like your main storage drive failed. Boot into the computer's BIOS setup using whichever designated key is required and see if your hard drive/SSD show up there. If not, it's time to replace it and reinstall Windows.

 

[l.helmore]

An update to it, it shows my hard drive in the bios, but I think my fan stopped working I can't hear the fan, and the plastic starts Getting hot after 10 mins of the laptop doing nothing at all and might've fried my hardware. Could that be it?

 

[christopher.john.sr]

If at idle the machine is hot-to-the-touch, you should probably take it to a professional.

 

[jsmithepa]

Sounds like broken fan to me. No fan, can't remove heat, engine explodes.

 

[Prostar Computer]

The fan should only spin up when the computer reaches certain temperatures. If you can monitor the temperatures with software, and if you don't see/hear/feel the fan pushing out any hot air around 50 - 60 Celsius, then it has a loose connection or it's a bad fan.

Computer's are pretty smart; they'll shut down before anything gets "fried." Unlikely that heat killed the system, but there's a small chance.