Walked away from my laptop last night for about half an hour...came back to a black screen with a message telling me that a hard drive failure was imminent, and I should back up my files and replace the hard drive.
WTF??
Tried shutting it down and booting up again, still getting a screen telling me it shut down to prevent damage to the computer, back up your stuff, etc. But how can I back up anything when I can't get past that screen?? It told me to press F8 to get to safe mode---that does nothing. I do have stuff backed up to my Hotmail skydrive account, and on disc, plus there's nothing vital like tax info or anything on the laptop.
I'm going to take it to a shop this weekend. I suspect the DAZ Studio program I downloaded had something to do with it, but I can't uninstall it if I can't get to the control panel.
Anything else I should do? Should I try turning it on tonight when I get home and see if anything's changed?
WTF??
Tried shutting it down and booting up again, still getting a screen telling me it shut down to prevent damage to the computer, back up your stuff, etc. But how can I back up anything when I can't get past that screen?? It told me to press F8 to get to safe mode---that does nothing. I do have stuff backed up to my Hotmail skydrive account, and on disc, plus there's nothing vital like tax info or anything on the laptop.
I'm going to take it to a shop this weekend. I suspect the DAZ Studio program I downloaded had something to do with it, but I can't uninstall it if I can't get to the control panel.
Anything else I should do? Should I try turning it on tonight when I get home and see if anything's changed?
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