Old Laptop HDD

[Pyromaniac225]

So my family has an old Dell laptop. I don't know exactly what year but it's an Old XPS and runs A very blocky OS that looks a lot like Windows 98, doesn't look like Vista.

 

Anyways, my little sister was trying to watch The Walking Dead *shudder* on it when it turned off. When she booted it back up it gave her and error that it could not detect a hard drive. So I took it out of the laptop, turned off my pc, plugged it in, set it as boot drive and turned it back on.

 

Well what happened is rather a mystery to me. As soon as it got past the "Press F** to enter BIOS" it flashes a blue screen to quickly for me to read, it doesn't even show up for one second, then the PC turns off.

 

I'm assuming the HDD is dead, would that be correct?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[G33k 4 L1F3]

So my family has an old Dell laptop. I don't know exactly what year but it's an Old XPS and runs A very blocky OS that looks a lot like Windows 98, doesn't look like Vista.

 

Anyways, my little sister was trying to watch The Walking Dead *shudder* on it when it turned off. When she booted it back up it gave her and error that it could not detect a hard drive. So I took it out of the laptop, turned off my pc, plugged it in, set it as boot drive and turned it back on.

 

Well what happened is rather a mystery to me. As soon as it got past the "Press F** to enter BIOS" it flashes a blue screen to quickly for me to read, it doesn't even show up for one second, then the PC turns off.

 

I'm assuming the HDD is dead, would that be correct?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

That has the symptoms of an old HDD finally dying. If it's as old as you say it is, it's not uncommon to see those die while you read from them.

[thekeemo]

if its that old its dead probably

[Pyromaniac225]

That has the symptoms of an old HDD finally dying. If it's as old as you say it is, it's not uncommon to see those die while you read from them.

That's what I was thinking.

I just wanted to confirm.