I have a Dell Inspirion 8200 laptop and according to Dell Tech. help, the Hard
Drive is broken. I have important data on it and I wondering could  anyone help me in getting in off the Hard Drive?

When I boot up the machine the Windows 2000 icon appears to load but then I get
a blue screen indicating a serious error and to run chkdsk /f (whatever that
is!) I ran the  diagonostic build from the CD and I got the following errors:

Diskette Drive B - Diskette Drive Read Test                : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISKETTE 030 042
  Device: Diskette_Drive_B  Test: Diskette_Drive_Read_Test
  Release: 1082 Module(s): Diskette
  Msg: The drive did not respond in a fixed time to an access attempt.

Diskette Drive B - Diskette Drive Write Test               : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISKETTE 040 042
  Device: Diskette_Drive_B  Test: Diskette_Drive_Write_Test
  Release: 1082 Module(s): Diskette
  Msg: The drive did not respond in a fixed time to an access attempt.

IDE Disk 0 - Confidence Test                               : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISK 192 068
  Device: IDE_Disk_0  Test: Confidence_Test-Read_Test
  Release: 1082 Module(s): Disk
  Msg: Block 19535097: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.

IDE Disk 0 - Read Test                                     : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISK 020 068
  Device: IDE_Disk_0  Test: Read_Test
  Release: 1082 Module(s): Disk
  Msg: Block 19535097: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.

IDE Disk 0 - Verify Test                                   : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISK 260 068
  Device: IDE_Disk_0  Test: Verify_Test
  Release: 1082 Module(s): Disk
  Msg: Block 19535097: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.


IDE Disk 0 - Write Test                                    : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISK 030 068
  Device: IDE_Disk_0  Test: Write_Test
  Release: 1082 Module(s): Disk
  Msg: Block 19535097: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.

Can you help? I would be happy even to retrieve the Data.

Regards

Donegalman