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[Yaymajyan]

Hello everyone. I got this problem on my laptop, dell Inspiron N5010. I found out that its a hard drive issue. My question is what can I do to not loose anything. I bought a seagate backup drive but i don't know where to go or what to do from here on. I want to boot the laptop with the f12 on startup but I'm scared of loosing everything. Does anyone know if by booting the system will I loose everything. I have pictures videos music and most important my daughters newborn pictures. Please help. I appreciate any help.

 

[DeadRam]

You can attempt a boot but that might not work. Continuing to use a failing hard drive can cause permanent data loss. Removing the hard drive is the best choice but you still need to power it on to recover data. I suggest you get help if your not familiar with removing the internal hard drive.

 

[house70]

If you do a repair-install you will not lose any data, just the Windows updates (and maybe the drivers) will need to be re-installed.