Dead Laptop
A mate of mine has packard bell laptop which is about 3 years old. It has been having a few problems in recent weeks (run tim errors etc) but tonight it just had a blue screen with a lot of errors messages. It was unresponsive to any keyboard command so the only option was to turn it off. On start up it no longer fires up windows and just has the message "operating system not found" Have tried to boot up in safe mode but no luck with this either. I suspect the hard drive has suffered a mechanical failure of some sort but any other suggestions would be appreciated - particularly if there is a chance of getting any data off the hard disk.