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Old 07-20-2012, 09:35 AM   #2
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Default Re: ARGH....Laptop just died, Now what?

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Originally Posted by jluck View Post
I have a "Hard drive boot sector reading error" and "System block not found".
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does your command prompt come up?
What operating system?
You should, perhaps, refrain from venturing in to the world of IT.

One possibility is to take it to a repair place, see if they can use the drive as a non-boot drive on another computer and then copy everything that you need to copy to a thumb drive. Alternately, if you have a friend who knows how to do that, have them do it, since it will be way cheaper. You do not have to buy a new enclosure for the munged drive if the other machine is a tower or desktop (not a laptop) since it will have extra disk slots.
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