I have a very old Hewlet Packard Pavillion (over 7 years old) desk top computer. About 2 years ago a friend upgraded the computer and software and installed Windows XP.
I moved to a new apartment and was plugging the computer in and there was a surge....the surge protector didn't seem to work and now the computer won't turn on. My question is can I recover the data on the computer. If not is it safe to recycle w/information still on the hard drive.
Thanks!