Plowy, in regards to your hard drive, there's is a cable available that will connect to your hard drive and which you can plu in to your laptop (hmm after you take out the H/D)and thus you should be able to access data from the H/D on your laptop, presuming the H/D isn't fried too !

Have a google and see if you can find what I mean, if I had more time I would do it for you but I am stuck with too much work and not enough time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

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