If you have another computer, try putting the hard disk in the other PC. If the disk drive won't easily exchange (e.g you only have a desktop), USB cables are available that will mate to laptop drives. You might be able to read her files off the laptop drive.
No video is strange. You would expect it to at least display a boot error. If you have a monitor, plug the monitor into the laptop and see if you get any video.
If you can get video, you might be able to get into the BIOS setup and disable "fast boot". That will give extended self tests, which might reveal the problem. At the very least, you can change the boot device and try booting from a CD. I think you have to hit F2 on this machine to get into the BIOS setup. Because of "fast boot", you have to hit F2 almost immediately after reboot.
A trick I use a lot is to try booting from a Knoppix CD. Knoppix is a bootable Linux CD. It's sometimes possible to read a bad disk using Knoppix.
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