Laptop help

[Christo!]

Basically my laptop fell a couple of feet off a chair onto the floor. It wasn't damage and for 24 hours worked fine.

Now when I load it up it just freezes after a few minutes. I try Ctrl Alt Del to get to Task manager but its not working.

Also Norton 360 seems to have problems and windows update needs to do stuff but my laptop freezes before I can sort these out.

I tried system restore but before it finishes the laptop crashes.

Anyone know if its more likely to be a virus, or have I damaged some of the hardware when it fell off the chair?

[Girgy85]

I seam to have a big smash in my screen! Summet to do with my screen connecting with my fist by accident!

[Christo!]

I seam to have a big smash in my screen! Summet to do with my screen connecting with my fist by accident!

Think I am gonna smash my laptop accidently with my fist in a minute

[G1BTW]

have I damaged some of the hardware when it fell off the chair?

try a new hard drive, ebay. Hard drives take being dropped while read/writing very badly.
Try booting in safe mode, F8 while booting. If it's still buggered, it's the drive.

[Christo!]

yeah i think the hard drive is fooked, not sure how i am gonna get all my poker tracker hands off it

[G1BTW]

yeah i think the hard drive is fooked, not sure how i am gonna get all my poker tracker hands off it

Boot from a special disc in the dvd drive maybe, then siphon them off on to a memory stick.
There are ways of doing it, your poker tracker hands are probably still on it, intact.

[Christo!]

cheers, i will look into trying to salvage some stuff from my hard drive