I've got a laptop, and the hard drive is pretty much dead. It makes a not-so-pleasant clicking noise, and won't boot to WIN2K. OK, that part is no big deal, I can get Dell to drop ship a new HD and reload the software.

However, there are some files on it I'd like to recover. The disk is not NTFS, so I can access the files with just a plain old dos boot disk. I've booted into it, and can browse the C drive, and get to the directory I need. I've tried copying some of the files to floppy, but it hasn't really worked out. It says it copies, but then there is nothing on the A drive.

Any ideas how I might get at the info (without biting the bullet and taking it to a pro shop)? Any easy ways to make a network boot disk, to try copying files that way? Am I a lost cause here?



Thanks.