Your hard drive failed. Do this before you spend money.

When a PC in Berwick dies mid-save, the instinct is to keep turning it on to "see if the files are still there." That's how a recoverable drive becomes a lab experiment.

If it clicks, or never IDs in BIOS: power it off. Don't run random repair CDs.

If Windows still starts: copy the things you cannot replace to a USB drive now. Then we can talk about whether the machine is worth fixing.

If it won't mount: that's a data recovery conversation. We look first and tell you whether it's realistic. No theater.

Open a ticket with "data recovery" as the topic and say what matters most — photos, bookkeeping, schoolwork. That order changes the work.