I tried peeling that rubber foot off-it started ripping. I'm not really interested in it anymore. The hard disk is toast-I confirmed that one. I put the machine up to my ear and started it-there's all kinds of bad noise coming out of it. I couldn't hear it before because it was sitting next to my desktop that sounds like a small jet engine. This laptop's so old there's really no use in putting a new drive in it now. I'll just give it back to the guy and tell him to buy a used one off e-bay or something.
-Aarmenaa