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Originally Posted by darth sephiroth
I wouldn't recommend opening up an playing mechanic on a laptop. I'd call a computer vendor.
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Well, if the primary concern before everything else is to recover AT LEAST the documents on that laptop, it's possible to remove the hard drive and:
1 - mount it inside another laptop
1' - use a Linux LiveCD (like Knoppix) or BartPE to boot a working system without altering the system already installed in that flackey laptop.
2 - mount it inside a mobile rack (2 inches something, for laptop hard drives), so that this HDD can be connected to a big PC via USB.
2' - just use that PC normally, laptop's HDD should be displayed as new HDD.
...and backup everything of importance on DVD's.
Once a backup is done, you'd be able to safely think about repairing that laptop.
Losing important data is just inacceptable, so backup it already, so that your father can sleep better
