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Beer spilled on laptop, Windows won't boot past bios
In the chaos of moving to a new house yesterday, a box my friend was moving ripped and a bottle of beer smashed onto my open and powered on laptop, scattering both liquid and glass everywhere. We immediately powered down and removed the battery, and placed the laptop upside down and mopped up the excess liquid from the outside as much as possible, and set it to dry upside down on a towel.
My laptop is a Lenovo U330, I had my brother install Win7 on it for me last year, but he kept the disks so I don't have any of them.
Several hours & some blowdrying later, we attempted to start up the laptop (I would have preferred to wait longer, but I needed to know if mine would work in case I needed to borrow my friend's for the week). The laptop will load the lenovo startup screen, and then flash the windows loadings screen (with the option to press f2 or f12) for a few seconds before recommending that I run startup repair. Which if I select it, will freeze after a few seconds. Usually my laptop's pretty noisy, but while the battery light flashes as if there is activity going on, there's no noise coming from it at all.
My friend tried starting it up in safe mode, which also froze after loading half the startup files. I think he changed the boot order, and also tried starting up from the last successful configuration. None of them were successful.
I kept the laptop upside down for a while, and after I realized the keys were becoming sticky again I took the keyboard out to clean underneath it. There was some liquid in the DVD drive, but other than that, none that I could detect. I left the keyboard out and have kept the laptop propped upside again.
so basically, I'm at a loss of what to do. I want to do everything possible to save all my files, but i'm not sure how. Any help appreciated; thanks!