Ughhhhhhh... Laptop Problems

[Jordan L.]

So a while back my grandmother gave me a laptop. It's fairly new, not old or anything, it's a Compaq Presario C700. It's got a biult in mic and webcam, SD card reader, everything. Even know the battery life is really bad. But now for some reason, it will ONLY let me install windows. I've been trying to boot Fedora from the live disc for hours now.. I keep getting a "Booting failed, Sleeping Forever". I'm starting to think it may be a hardware problem? Maybe my Harddrive's had it?

I'm not sure, but I could really use some help :S