Thanks for you help so far, very grateful to have someone talk me through things :)

I think what I'll probably just do is get it professionally fixed and the hard drive replaced, because I don't...

I'll give that a try tonight then, but I don't hold out much hope!

Took it to tech support at PC World today for a quick eyeball diagnostic, and the guy said it sounds like hard drive failure and...

I can't run anything on the laptop as it never boots up beyond the disk error stage, so there's no scope for me to install or run any programs.

Hi all,

I've been having problems recently with my laptop (Samsung 7 series) freezing. I then get a pop up saying "windows has stopped working", and it either unfreeze after a few minutes or I...