The CNET Storage forum at the top has a Lost and Found discussion about how to get files off such drives. Be sure to re-use advice like this.
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I have a dell inspiron 1545 laptop and the hard drive cannot read the boot sector. Cannot restart. Want to backup info to new harddrive. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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