Acer Laptop stuck at boot logo screen

[TwinSoul]

Hello all,
I own an Acer Aspire M5-581t ultrabook laptop. Up until this point it has given me no issues whatsoever and has run incredibly fast. Last night I was playing Diablo 3 and as I went to exit it to head off to work, it crashed and it seemed my laptop had no idea how to handle it. After ctrl/alt/deleting and trying to solve it with the task manager, the task manager crashed as well and everything was basically frozen. In a hurry to get to work I held the power button to force shut it down. Tonight, I went to start it back up and each attempt, my laptop stays on the "Acer" boot logo screen. After waiting about 8 mins, one of several things will happen - either it will direct me to the system information and setup configuration screen, a box will pop up stating there is no bootable device, or it will fall to a grayish blank screen. What could have happened to my laptop so suddenly?

[patio]

Next boot up hold down Shift and repeatedly tap F8 for safe mode...
Select Advanced Boot Menu and from there run the startup Repair.
Do NOT interrupt it.

[TwinSoul]

Still no luck. Held Shift and tapped f8 for about 2 minutes straight and it just stayed at the boot logo. After a while of waiting the box popped up saying "no bootable device [Ok]" and when I hit enter it just went to the white screen. 

[DaveLembke]

Sounds like the Hard Drive is dead. If you know the make of the hard drive such as Seagate, download seatools and run a HDD test on it.

[Computer_Commando]

I think this model laptop has an SSD.

[TwinSoul]

Will try that. Under further research I'm thinking either the harddrive got corrupted or something when everything crashed and I forced it to shut down or corrupted a boot file. When I try to boot it the harddrive and motherboard are making healthy sounds so at least that's intact and the fan isn't doing anything erratic. Quite sure that it has an SSD as well, would it be possible to run a similar test, and if so, how?

[DaveLembke]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416723,00.asp?tab=Specs

Looks like Drive may be a hybrid 520GB 5400 RPM + SSD to me sounds like a hybrid.

[patio]

Was this unit dropped ? ?
Be honest....

[Ryuk]

If its windows 7 you could try using a repair disk.  I would check the BIOS an see if its seeing the drive just to make sure. 

[TwinSoul]

Haha no, I have treated this laptop with lots of care and never once dropped it. And it came with Windows 8.

[Ryuk]

Patio, will help you out cant say I know enough about 8.  It should of asked you to make backup disks but, outside of that.  I would ether look on youtube or google

[Computer_Commando]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416723,00.asp?tab=Specs

Looks like Drive may be a hybrid 520GB 5400 RPM + SSD to me sounds like a hybrid.

It's actually 2 separate drives.  The SSD is used for disk caching only.  I've seen some of those type of SSD's for sale; they cannot be used as primary drives.