No bootable partition in table

[Noah]

Hey guys

Problem:
My brothers Dell laptop just started having ''Disk Read Errors'' today.
He attempted to install windows again via Flashdisk (no cd-rom) but this game to ''No bootable partition in table''.
Ive look all over the internet for a solution and they all relate to buy a new laptop, replace HDD or HDD is gone.
My brothers Years project for University is on that HDD and he's streesing big time. Is there a possible fix for the HDD/Laptop or is there a place that can recover his project for him or a simple way to recover it.
Specifically in Bloem.
Any help will be appreciated.

EDIT: He needs the project by Tuesday. Oh and its a Dell EEE PC don't know exact info though.

 

[noswal]

Get spinrite from grc.com

 

[Noah]

Thanx will give it a try

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Chances are the HDD might be on its way out.

Before you run spinrite, create a knoppix boot disk, boot with it, and try to copy the important files over to USB stick first... then try spinrite.

 

[Noah]

Will give it a try
Thanx

 

[Noah]

Soz for double post
But what type of harddrives do these EEE pc's use I may want to replace it.
I think the laptop is a Dell Inspirion Mini 9