One of our kids' laptops stopped booting a couple of days ago. I have confirmed there is nothing wrong with the laptop itself; it's a hard drive issue.
To narrow this down I have:
Placed the offending hard drive in an external drive enclosure attached to another computer. The other computer...
boot issues
command prompt
data loss
diagnostic tools
diagnostics
directorylisting
disk failure
empty recycle
external drive
file system
hard drive
laptop issues
os installation
recovery
repair
rescue disc
startup settings
troubleshooting
windows