A new hard drive is still cheaper than bringing the laptop to a tech shop or scrapping it altogether.$76 for a new 40gb 5400 rpm @ New Egg.
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- zipp51, that's not the point. It was her brother's (died) computer that has a game he created only to be found on this computer (and just the fact that it was her brother's) Reformat, his life in the machine is gone.