My Latitude 131L kicked the bucket today. I fired the old girl up and kept getting an error message when the hard drive would try to boot up. I tried everything I could think of, including reinstalling Windows, but nothing would work. Before I take it outside to see how well it will handle the being run over by an F150 stress test, I thought I'd see if y'all have any suggestions. I had to switch over to my Inspiron 1000 and this thing is S................L................O............... .....W! My thoughts are that the 131 needs a new hard drive.