1000 having this done, the data may be retrievable, and it may not. Sorry Luck DONT let Dell take your old drive, say youll send it to them after youve recovered what you can. You should first try doing a reinstall of the operating system. There are several things you can do. It is the best and works on all operating systems.

After running the software and if you find and repair errors you may again try reinstalling the operating system. If Spinrite cannot recover your drive it may be because the drive is mechanically broken in which case a hard drive recovery service would be appropriate but very expensive. Another cheaper idea is that you may just want to physically extract the drive from one machine and place it as an add on drive in another Windows machine.

You should then be able to see, check and test the drive with either the Chkdsk command or the Scandisk command. Finally you could insert a new cheap hard drive in your non booting machine and reinstall the operating system. Thats gonna be hard, if its in fact broken. 300 for hard drive recovery service but there is no guranteed. 300 for hard drive recovery service but there is no guranteed.