[jyl]

O, fudge. I ran the HDD self test from the H-P boot menu. Self test won't run, reports "read failure". Okay, sorry to bother you guys, I believe I am hosed unless IT gets a FedEX package my way.

The data on the laptop is not important - everything is stored on the company's servers anyway. But jeez - this is the third HDD failure I've had in the past year (two at home, now this).

SSDs are sounding better every day.