[SOLVED] Repairing disk errors this might take over an hour

[Stangnet]

Dell laptop just went down so I thought I'd try this forum. Remember, I know just enough to be dangerous.



W10 just froze and I got this message after trying to restart. 3 hours later the screen showed "no boot device found"



After more fiddling, I got a blue screen that gave options to restore among other options. I tried everything and nothing took. Now when I restart I get the Dell logo and everything goes black. Have tried repeatedly to start in safe mode....no luck.



I have some time sensitive docs that I need access to. What options do I have? Can I remove the hard drive and install it into a different laptop? Can this thing be fixed?



If you have ideas please be generous and give a step by step tutorial. I thank you....



Matt

 

[USAFRet]

Your ONLY next step would be to connect that drive as a secondary drive in some other system.
See if you can access any data on it.

Do NOT just put it in a different laptop hoping it might boot up. Do not do that.

And....this is specifically what backups are for.
Your data should never be at the mercy of a single storage device or system.

 

[The_Prophecy]

In order for us to best suggest how to go about connecting that drive to another machine as USAFRet has advised, knowing the make and model of your Dell laptop would be helpful as well.