STeaker

Hi there.

My girlfriend has a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, running Windows XP, I believe 256 mb ram.
A couple weeks ago her computer wouldn't start up. We fixed this by taking the batter out, putting it back in, and it worked fine.
A week ago, she found that her USB port stopped working. Then a few days later, her CD ROM drive stopped working.
One day ago, she tried to double click Internet Explorer, and it wouldn't load.
So today, she started it up, and the computer started making a wierd screeching noise every 5 seconds, and a wierd sound like a marble hitting plasit, coming from near the CD ROM drive. It made it all the way to the desktoop, with icons starting to appear. Then classic blue screen of death came up saying something like "THere was an error involving windows..." something about win32, the power supply, and a PAGE full of numbers.
This message stayed up for all of 5 seconds and then the ocmputer shut itself down. So, she restarted again. Now it gets halfway through the Dell Loading screen, then another blue screen of death. This one saying "Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Not Found" so we hit the key to go to BIOS, and it said that it couldn't read any hard drive.

So I understand that the HD is probably fried, but my GF has university finals coming up, and like 3 days to hand in her final assignments, which are all on her computer.
Is there anything we can do? Even just a way to get her files off her computer to finish her assignments so we can worry about her computer later?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, because really, her but tis on the line in university right now because her computer fried itself.

Thanks in advance,

Steak

Nauree

I'm gona say is the HDD really did fail. I would think the only possible thing to do is to take it to someone that has the equipment to try to recover messed up HDDs. Its not consumer friendly as they usually charge upwards to $1000.

kennymester

The fastest way to retrieve her files would be to go and get an external enclosure for a 2.5in HDD. The enclosure turns an internal HDD into a usb drive. They would most likey have something like that at your local computer store.

Hope all ends well.

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