If this needs to be on another NG,please tell me.
I have a Dell laptop with Vista that is on it's 4th or maybe 5th hard-drive,
in about 6 months. They keep crashing and Dell sends another. This time I
am getting a 2000-0142 error code, which I believe is hard drive not found.
Needless to say, it will not boot. It just has one of those endless cycles
where it tries to boot and reaches a certain point, then tries to shut down
and then reboot, it fails then....over and over again. I cannot get into
safe mode. I can get into bios setup, which I am not sure is any help. But
my question is this. Is there any way of saving the data that is on the hard
drive, whether it is in the laptop or not? The Dell rep said something about
an "enclosure?" What is that? With 98 and before, there was a "boot disk"
Is there such a thing as a boot cd ? Would that help? What else can I try.?
I appeciate any suggestions.
JS
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