Quote Originally Posted by Mark Bolton View Post
My currently laptop is pretty old, probably 5-6 years I'm guessing. It struggles with very large sketchup files. The HD is only making it to 11% on a scan then failing. Like a ding a ling I never burned the recovery discs so now I have no OS.

I guess I was mainly thinking it wasn't worth investing a few hundred bucks in that old of a machine.
I have heard that placing the hard drive in a freezer for several hours will "fix" the drive long enough so that that files etc can be recovered. Not sure about the OS restore part though.