Dropped Dell XPS has hard-drive trouble

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Published on 2010-04-20T18:54:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 22:53 UTC
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Yesterday, my mom dropped her laptop to the floor and got the blue screen of death after trying to boot the system.

I was able to start a Fedora live CD and get some of her stuff off the hard drive, but I cannot seem to be able to install Windows on it. The installation starts loading files and then the computer turns off.

I am thinking that she might need a new hard drive.

Any ideas?

Edit:
I actually was able to boot the Windows XP installation but it is saying that no hard disk is detected. How can this be possible if I was able to mount the drive on fedora yesterday?

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