Shuts down after start up screen

Hi, Trying to help out a friend.
Her lappy shuts down after the initial screen and sound.
Power supply seems ok.
Any suggestions?
thanks

I went to apple today and they told me that the hard drive has unmounted itself. They have my macbook right now and they said they're going to replace the wire that connects the hard drive to the logic board and see if this solves the issue. If it doesn't work they will replace the existing 250GB hard drive in my macbook with a 500GB as they no longer make that size hard drives (cost of £130 for the replacement). The problem is that i dont have my macbook backed up so will there be anyway to get data off the od hard drive?

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