You need to purchase a new hard drive and have it installed, If you have anything important on your laptop right now, that is what you want to create a backup of, or you can have the store you buy the hard drive from do the back up for you and most computer stores will load it all to the new drive for free
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This is a serious matter not to be ignored.
Continuing to use the laptop can hasten the final, total failure of the drive every time you use it.
If you have important documents, pictures, music, video clips etc. that you need to save, then you need an External Hard Drive or, at least one or more high capacity (4Gb, 8Gb, 16Gb or 32Gb) USB Flash Drives (sometimes called Memory Sticks or Pen Drives).
Trying to save everything onto individual CDs or DVDs, as you seem to be trying to do is time consuming, less easy to assure complete data saving, less easy to check, and makes the hard drive work extra hard over an extended period of time, thus hastening the failure of the hard drive.
Using CDs or DVDs almost guarantees that the drive will fail before you've completed the task of saving all your data.
The quickest, safest and most assured way of saving your important data is to save it to the largest capacity external storage device you can afford.
Save only data you have created or downloaded yourself. Do not bother saving Programs or Windows itself (you do not need to save everything on Drive C:).
Do so as soon as possible. If the drive fails you may never have access to the data on the hard drive again.
On the matter of the hard dive itself, (only after you have backed up all important data) an experienced technician can remove the physical hard drive from your laptop, connect it to another computer and then, using a new, compatible hard drive (preferrably with a larger capacity than the old one), and Hard Drive Management software (such as Paragon Hard Drive Manager) clone the old hard drive to create an identical new hard drive.
When the new, clone drive is installed in the laptop, the computer will treat it like the old drive and your computer should boot automatically to its familiar desktop without any problems.
Achieving this efficient, effective, pain-free solution, depends upon you acting quickly now, before the existing hard drive fails, after which none of the above will be possible.
Hope this helps.
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