Solved: Tosiba Satellite laptop windows 2000

Can someone give me a clue what to look for here. A guy I have helped before dropped his Toshiba laptop off he said it wouldn't stay started.

Last time I helped him he had a heating problem, the fans for cooling are under the laptop so I told him to get a holder that would let the air get through and it worked fine haven't heard from him for a year or so.

It is a Toshiba Satellite A60/65 says XP but so I must be wrong about the windows 2000 anyway he says he has some material he really needs off of it

Anyway I plugged it in cause the battery I think is bad, and it tries to start but then disconnects right away. by right away I mean nothing ever comes up on the screen.

YOU can hear it start and the lights come on but you never hear the hard drive doing anything and like I said it just clicks and shuts down.

Would it be the hard drive is bad? and if so can a person still get the info off of it? Can someone give me a clue? I think it is the hard drive but how can I check it

 

If you hear clicking from the hard drive, it's going to die soon. Slave it to another machine if you need to recover data and replace it.

 

So then even tho it tries to start up but then you hear that one click and it shuts down that is the hard drive?

 

OK one more question, If I slave it another computer and just burn to a disk what needs to be saved then can you just buy another hard drive like it and use the recovery disks to put the system back on?

 

That will work, and the drives aren't that expensive.

 

Thanks, I will close this thread