The Lad's 9 month old Packard Bell laptop (Win7 64bit) has died. A few odd messages yesterday, today next to nothing. Switch on and after the BIOS screen it offers a choice of Normal start or Recovery start. Normal start leads to the Windows logo and then a flash of BSOD and shut down. Recovery start eventually goes to a 'blue sky' screen with mose pad active but no further. Cannot get into BIOS settings (ie to change boot drive) neither can I get it to offer a start in safe mode.
Virus or hard drive failure? FWIW he's admitted to visiting porn sites.
Priority is to recover data - mainly music from Amazon MP3 store - that's not backed up There are a set of recovery discs but I suspect these will wipe the C Drive.
I'm thinking in terms of creating a bootable CD in another OS (Linux?) so as to navigate the drive or, presumably at the cost of voiding the warranty, getting the HDD in a caddy and seeing if it's readable that way.
Has anybody any similar experiences or advice
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