Blue screen pc

[Rustyiron]

Is it hopeless? Any of you guy's know if any thing, mostly pics & music is retrievable from a pc with the blue screen of death? I have most of it on an external "hard drive" thingy, but not all of it. I'm switchin' teams, to a Mac. Any tips?

 

[grsthegreat]

ive always been able to recover everything from a dead drive....AS long as the drive is still able to turn. Any computer geek (geek squad, whatever) can plop the old drive along side a new computer and drive and just access it like an additional drive

 

[deerseeker001]

do you have a disk in the E drive?

 

[haveissues]

If you are getting far enough to blue screen you have a good chance of easy data recovery without too much expense. I would recommend you stop messing with it and get your data off though. If the drive is dying every spin up could be its last.

 

[Soundguy]

as has been said. if the drive operates.. plenty of ways to mount it..

 

[jaotguy]

even those "dead "drives can usually be "revived" temporarily by placing the computer on its side or upside down and firing it up again... ( loads the hard drive bearings in a different plane )

invest in an external USB hard drive adaptor and borrow another computer with a DVD burner ... hook up the almost dead HD to the adaptor and plug into the borrowed computer's USB port , copy the data to a DVD / USB stick, etc

 

[Gator6x4]

I have always backed up my computer and data to a external drive. I have experience several "Blue" or "Blank" screens over the years. One of the best backup programs I have ever used was the DOS program "Fast Back". Windows 7 Ultimate and Professional both have what I consider an excellent backup program. I have used "Back Up Restore" in both Ultimate and professional to repair or replace a damaged hard drive.

Have you tried booting from the DVD and doing a repair? That might solve your problem if the blue screen is being caused because someone had a thought, what happens if I push this.

Can you boot into "Safe Mode" and do a repair?

Are you getting just a blue screen, or are you getting a blue screen with numbers and other data displayed along with a error code string of numbers?

 

[Rustyiron]

I'll take some where. You guy's makes it sound like there is hope, but most of you're words are jibberish to me:confused3: thanks! This and a few other forums are about the extent of my computer needs or use.

 

[jaotguy]

if switching to Mac ... just bring the beast in and have them transfer the files over to the Mac for you .... a lot of mac stores will do it free of charge.

 

[JamesHW]

I've recovered files for people (never charged, just as a favor) by hooking the drive to another PC using an adaptor and just copying the folders over. If someone has a PC with an extra slot, it is dead easy to hook the drive up (assuming the correct type connectors are present) and see if the drive spins up and is assigned a drive letter (sometimes you need to change the settings on the drive to slave). In one case a drive containing crucial files would not spin up, so I purchased another of the exact same drive off eBay for $5, switched the circuit board onto the dead drive and it woke right up. I still have an inexpensive stethoscope I used for listening to the drive for signs of life.

I still use PCs but considering a MacBook Pro to replace the current Lenovo laptop.