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RESOLVED: Halp! BSOD during boot up.

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Carol Haynes:
Have a look at:

http://www.partition-recovery.com/download.htm

you could try the demo boot CDROM from that page which should at least be able to tell you if the disk is recoverable:

http://download2.lsoft.net/boot-cd-iso.zip

I haven't tried this software - and if you need to buy it it isn't cheap (at $80) but at least the demo may give you a clue what is going on.

Deozaan:
Thanks. I hope my CD burner works from within this Ubuntu Live CD.

Deozaan:
Well the CD burner might have worked, but I had to remove the Ubuntu Live CD to put in a blank CD, and that messed everything up. So then I tried rebooting back into the Live CD and for some reason it wouldn't do it.

Then I remembered I had a spare drive sitting around so I swapped out the bad drive with the spare and installed Windows on it. Once Windows was reinstalled, I attempted to plug in the old bad drive to try to chkdsk or whatever but my PC wouldn't boot when that drive was plugged in. In fact, after I decided it was toast and unplugged it, I even had to repair the good drive's boot stuff.

So I guess that drive is toast. I'm back up with Windows on the spare drive, I lost a little bit of data that was stored in my User directory (AppData). Most of that isn't important but I would have liked to have kept some of it (my Minecraft saves, for instance).

So anyway, thanks for the help. I guess I've got it sorted as well as it's going to be sorted now.

Carol Haynes:
Moral - buy a decent UPS to stop it happening again!

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