Hard disk crashed

Hard disk crashed!! What should I do??

I have this 4-5 year old Dell desktop and when I try to turn it on, a black screen comes up and it says that the boot volume is too big and I can't turn it on. I always have to restart it, but the same screens keep on coming up! There's always a black screen with a loading bar at the bottom and then a blue screen that tells you to restart. A computer guy says that the hard disk could be gone but I have all my important stuff on that computer like pictures. What should I do?

Solution:-Sounds like a bad hard drive - but do not worry - you can save the data! Purchase a new hard drive (Tiger Direct.com is a great, low cost place). Install the new hard drive as the Master - install Windows on it (I assume you have a legit copy). Install the bad hard drive as the slave - Windows will see this as a storage device and then you can pull all of your files off of it.