ARGH....Laptop just died, Now what?

[smitty81]

does your command prompt come up?
What operating system?

[markem]

Originally Posted by jluck

I have a "Hard drive boot sector reading error" and "System block not found".

Originally Posted by smitty81

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.