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I accidentally spilled a small amount of liquid into the keyboard of my Dell Inspiron N5110. Initially, it would not boot up at all. I bought and replaced the keyboard and it now boots up but will not stay on. It now boots up and a message pops up saying “Preparing Automatic Repair.” However after that’s complete I get a Blue Screen that “Your PC has run into a problem and will and needs to restart. We will restart for you.” There is also a message just below that says: “If you would like to learn more you cn search online late for this error: WDF VIOLATION.” I have entered into Setup and have run a diagnostics test on the laptop. Everything checks out GOOD except for the Hard drive. I get error code 2000-01-42. Do I need a new hard drive? Have I lost everything that is on that Hard Drive? How can I recover anything that was on it if there is a way to do it? A while back I did create a recovery drive but if I’m not mistaken, If I can restart my Dell, it would revert back to factory settings. Before I do that I would like to recover what was on the Hard Drive if possible. Please help. JOHN O.
@hondo381 I think you already answered your own question. You stated that you get a hard drive error and WDF. Since I am sure you Googled it you know that it is “Damaged or removed system files after you’ve installed software or drivers related to Windows Operating System. Error 0x10D blue screen caused by a damaged hard disk.” Sound slike that is where your trouble originates from. Replce the drive, reinstall your OS to the new drive. Get a USB adapter and try to see if your computer can access your old drive as an external drive. That way you can try to recover some of the files from your drive.
