Ouch. It’s the HD, the HD controller or cable. Probably the HD.
Well, consider what you really want.
The more you try to run the computer the more likely you are to destroy data on the hard drive.
Now, you may be able to get the computer to work for a few minutes by super-cooling it.
Have access to a meat locker or other very cold area?
The old trick was to put the hard drive in a baggie and put it in the frrezer overnight.
Supposedly that would help about a quarter of the time. It worked for me once years ago- long before laptops- the drive was only 250 MBs and the size of a large bible!
That would give you a chance to grab info off the hard drive, If you have access to a camera you could tape what’s on the screen while you’re running through the info you need and maybe get quite a bit.
It will not repair your hard drive. but it’s a trick that sometimes works just to get brief access to what’s on it.
For a laptop, I’d try putting it in front of an AC and running it there. If that didn’t help I’d try putting the laptop in a baggie after cooling it in front of the AC and stick it in the freezer overnight.
Consider moisture will condense on and in the laptop when you take it out of the freezer.
I think, in toto, your best bet would be to get a new used computer and usb enclosure and then do the freeze trick with the enclosure to get the old info.
I’m not a tech, see if others have better suggestion.
we are trying the frozen HD overnight...we tried it for a few hours today, but same results.
How could it pull up the windows is loading files and the microsoft corporation screen if the HD was bad? Is that possible?