day two of the restrictions, computer crashed yesterday.... heatwave in Melbourne and the laptop is suffering... just as I was coming up to four hours, KABOOM. Dead laptop. It didn't really make a kaboom sound btw.
If its not powering up, then its probly completely rooted. But if it does power up (but not boot) then try getting a copy of slitaz, or linux mint as these are operating systems that can run without being installed and can run on a computer with a fried HDD -> these are useless if you want to mine from your laptop, but good enough to use to get online for trolling forums, or whatnot.