[bobsatwork]

Data recovery will cost about $600. I have seen widespread hard drive crashes on laptops in recent years. Usual symptoms: runs fine, then a couple of lockups, then ocassional blue screen crashes, then failue. Usually occurs over several days time.

[Libloather]

Data recovery will cost about $600.

I'll do it for half that, with the Vaseline included.

New hard drives are cheap. Start there...