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What's going on here? A week or so ago this showed up and haven't been able to turn on my laptop since. Some hardware issue?

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

Don't waste your money. If the data is really important, send the disk to a data recovery service to avoid risking further damage. If it's only somewhat important, use a (free!) tool like ddrescue to attempt to recover the data.