I think a laptop i have here has a dead hard drive. I booted into test function (F12 i think) and run diagnostics, all ok bar the hard drive fails to complete and shows error code '70'.

Any ideas if this is a dead hard drive, secondly is there a way i could recover the documents, photos etc??

Any help appreciated - its running or was running vista - hard drive was 250GB toshiba drive.....

Thanks