Hey guys, the other day I was playing a game (on windows) when my laptop totally froze, when i turned it on I got this message:

"Default boot device missing or boot failed, insert recovery media and hit any key, then select 'Boot Manager' to choose a new boot device or to boot recovery media"

I went to the BIOS and saw that it was not picking up my hard drive in the boot options tab, and same in the boot menu.

I installed ubuntu on a USB stick and ran ubuntu to check some things in the terminal.

Firstly, with the lsblk command (a command that shows available storage devices and their partitions, for those of you not familiar with linux), I checked if it would still display my hard disk drive, and it did

It showed my HDD as sda, with partitions from 1 to 7:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1000M 0 part
sda2 8:2 0 260M 0 part
sda3 8:3 0 1000M 0 part
sda4 8:4 0 128M 0 part
sda5 8:5 0 884.2G 0 part
sda6 8:6 0 25G 0 part
sda7 8:7 0 20G 0 part

With fdisk -l, it also picks up my hard drive dev/sda:

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121126 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6eff1173

I'm not sure what to do with GNU Parted, and GParted comes up with some kind of input/output error when trying to scan the HDD

My question is basically this:

Is the hard drive totally kaput, is there an easy way of getting the data off. There is nothing on there that I would pay money to retrieve, only a lot of songs, some FL projects and audio samples but it can all be rebuilt.

I could order a new HDD and have it by tomorrow, just want to first make sure there is no way of fixing it, and if i can retrieve data

Thanks!