MY LAPTOP FELL DOWN AND IT KEEPS ON SHOWING INSTALL AN OPERATING SYSTEM ON THE HARD AND BOOT DEVICE

[TMR2]

PLEASE I NEED SERIOUS HELP BECAUSE AFTER MY LAPTOP FELL DOWN IT HAS BEEN HAVING THIS ERROR AND I AM STUDENT SO ALL MY WORK IS INSIDE PLEASE WHO CAN HELP ME URGENTLY

[TheOldMan]

Typically after a fall and those errors, the hard drive has failed.  Least bad news is one of the connections on the drive came loose.  If that model has a SSD drive, then probably a connection came loose.  It will require opening the case and checking those connections.  And if none are loose or disconnected, then the drive failed.

Data recovery is not looking good, either.

[TMR2]

so if the hard Drive has failed it means that my data IS LOST OR WHAT?????????? AND WHICH ONE IS THE  HIGHEST POSSIBILITY PLEASE BECAUSE I HAVE ASSIGNMENTS DUE NEXT THAT I HAVE WORKED VERY VERY HARD FOR

[TMR2]

please what is an ssd drive

[TheOldMan]

SSD is a solid state drive - no moving parts, so less susceptible to failure due to fall.  Without the model number, it is not possible to tell if that model has a SSD.  If your laptop has a normal hard drive and the drive failed because of the fall, then data recovery is typically not possible without using a recovery service, and then outlook is not good.  That is why data backup should be a common practice.

[WAWood]

@TheOldMan is correct that data recovery is unlikely with a physically damaged drive, as that generally caused something know  as a Head Crash and when that happens, the drive simply does not work anymore.

If you want to attempt data recovery, you can consider doing the following:

1) Remove the hard drive from the old PC
2) Purchase a USB-to-Hard Driver adapter kit (like the one illustrated below)

3) Connect the old drive to a working PC using that adapter
4) Try to retrieve the files and folders you want to save from the old drive and copy them to the new PC.

If this does not work, then you need to do the following:
1) Download and install this utility on a working PC http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/recover_data_in_3_steps_with_minitool_power_data_recovery_free_...
2) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive.

If that tool does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva

And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the trial version is free http://www.file-recovery.com/