My laptop wont start up...

If you have any data that you want to salvage on the drive, you can try getting one of these: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/S...CatId=2783 and see if it will be recognized as a external hard drive.


have you tried: http://www.planetmy.com/blog/how-to-fixm...able-disk/

with the vista boot disk?