I’m not sure whether this is the right forum. But my wife’s laptop opens with the message “operating system not found.” If left off for a while I can sometimes get it to boot to Windows 2000 Professional. But then, unexpectedly, it will blue screen with “physical memory being dumped” and proceed through a slow checking of the hard drive. The laptop is old and I wonder whether the hard drive is at the end of its days. But finances force me to keep it going as long as I can?
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Jump to PostYeah, it's pretty much toast.
Do you have a good (and recent) backup of anything important.> But finances force me to keep it going as long as I can
What about the value of any work you're going to keep losing with the random BSODs?
Or the general …
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