Mac Booki Pro wont turn on, just endlessly tries to churn empty disk drive

My 2007 November purchased Mac Book Pro now refuses to start up. Pressing the power button, on full battery and power adapter connected, causes the disk drive to give an operating noise - same as on normal startup - again and again. The machine gets stuck in this mode, disk trrying to do something until I stop it by pressing the start button long enough.
I have tried the power management unit reset, by removing battery and adapter and pressing power button for 5 seconds. No difference.
I have tried the forced disk eject by holding trackpad/mouse button depressed while starting up. In this mode the sound from teh disk drive is different, but the repeat continues and nothing happens.
I have tried holding the cmd/opt/r/p buttons down on startup, makes no difference whatsoever.
Any advice/ideas - or it it a repair service matter....
Thanks

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