sumsouljah
05-10-2008, 07:05 PM
Hi I'm running windows xp sp2 with 1gb Ram and 320gb Hard Drive and just the other day I got BSOD on boot up. I installed a program which seemed harmless but it really wasn't after I restarted I don't know whether it was the program or the fact that I tried to boot to safe mode but it jammed so I shut down that caused to problem but the next boot up I had BSOD. I tried Last whatever that worked...BSOD, Safe Mode...BSOD everything gave me BSOD. So I was gonna try something I found on the internet about using recovery console but that wouldn't work for me. I came back from school and found out my dad was trying a few things(he's pretty good with computers) then I checked my Windows XP Disc Partition Screen and I had 1 partition Local Disc C[unknown] (thats what it said) and that was it. Before hand I had to Local Disc C and D, one hard drive split into 2. He told me all he did was check the hard drive with pre-boot programs and so on and I believe him so all of today and yesterday I have been downloading boot Programs like LIVE XP USB Version 2008 and 2007 and I have tried BARTPE but I seriously don't know what to do. I am getting a larger hard drive(740gb) soon but my main question is there a way to recover or back-up my data or some of it? I really need this and it is important to me that I get it back, I am not worried about re-installing Windows all I need is to backup my data. If this isn't possible If I get a new hard drive in the next couple of days, would I be able to access my "older" hard drive and copy/backup data from it or would windows be unable to read it? I would really appreciate any help given because this is extremely important to me. thanks. just to let you know I am writing this on my dads really weak laptop which struggles to download and the USB ports barely work.