Hugh suggested,
> I suggest that you see the IT guys - they
> should be able to restore your OS and Progs easily as for the
> data then if using the network then it should all be on
> the Councils servers.
This is good advice - just a cuationary note: if you want to
retain the data on the laptop, over even think you might,
emphasize to the admins that you'd like them to recover
the data. Otherwise, they may tend to do the easy thing
and just reformat and reinstall and give you back pristine
drive with no useful data. Seen it happen.
Given that trashing the boot sector is rare, you need to
assess whether your PC was attacked by a virus or whether
the drive is failing. If it were my personal PC, I'd buy
a new drive, reinstall the OS on it, then put the old
drive into a USB external drive enclosure and then copy
the data over to the new drive. It will cost you a couple
hundred Euros to get things back in order, but if the
data is valueable, it should be worth it.
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