I have a low-end laptop, and a proclivity to put things off when I ought not to, which is to say I haven’t backed the thing up in a while. Apparently my hard-drive quit me the other day because after it refused to boot-up a couple of times, I got it to run diagnostics and it failed the hard disk short DST test. Google tells me that means my hard drive is a goner.
I have a few Wordpad files on the thing that I’d really like to rescue, but my Google-Fu is not strong and my computer savvy is even less strong. I couldn’t find any way to do it myself, which means I’ll most likely have to pay someone to do it. I suppose that’s a natural consequence of buying a really cheap laptop and then not backing your files up regularly, but it hardly seems cost-effective to do so. It’s such a small amount of data I’d like to get back, and I really don’t care about anything else on the dumb thing.
I thought perhaps some of the knowledgeable folks here might be able to provide a solution to my admittedly self-inflicted computer woes. It’s an HP 2000 Notebook PC running (used to run) Windows 8. Model number is HP 2000-2b19wm, the hard drive model is WDC WD3200BPVT.