Dell Inspiron 1521 hard drive read failure...

When you turn on my laptop, I get a black screen that contains the following message:

"Failed to read on internal hard drive.

No bootable devices - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for Setup utility. Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics. »

The problem is... I am a student with the coursework deadlines and my course should be on my hard drive.

Tried to run the diagnostic program and the error code I got was...

"Msg: Error Code 2000 - 0146.

MSG: Unit 1: DST log contains previous error. »

Edit: I tried to replace my optical drive and hard drive without success. If I need to replace my hard drive, is there a way to save my files?

And what could I do?

Any ideas how I can backup my files?

Thank you.

Message edited by Lothberius on 03/09/2008 18:15

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