Greetings computer guru's...

In need of some advice. My Dell Inspiron laptop heaved its guts the other day.

I set the computer to defragment overnight while I was at work. I went to bed, I ended up going out on a call in the middle of the night, came back and saw..the blue screen of death. I shut it off, and tried to restart, however got the same screen. I tried safe mode, and got the same results.

Currently a good friend whom is very computer literate is looking at it.

My question is, I have 100's of pictures on that comp. that are very dear and important to me, none are back-up, yeah, yeah, shame on me i know, how realistic is it that I will be able to recover them?

Help, im stressed out over this big time!!!

p.s.: Dell sucks.

 

I don't know about your friend but I could recover them. It's not that I can do anything special, I've just seem some dumb techies.

 

make sure you don't have any disks in any of the drives.

use the computer you are posting with right now and type everyting it says on the blue screen of death into a search engine such as google or the better dogpile.

dell doesn't suck. you are having a software problem not a machine problem.

oh and one more thing, if you bought it new you should have a recovery disk which will allow you to boot up with a previously known to be good boot up sequence.

good luck-

 

Be somewhat careful there. Some of those recovery disks will also reformat the drive while they are "recovering" to the store-bought state.

What version of Windoze is it?

 

if after you have tried everything to repair windows and nothing works all is not lost for the data. You can pull the hd and hook it up to another machine to pull the data you would like off of it. Hopefully the defrag didnt corrupt all of your data when it choked. Did you by chance have a screen saver running or virus software or any of that on defrag?

 

Don't worry about your data... any PC half-wit can recover it. Don't worry about it. If he blows it, shoot him. If he says he can't recover them, ship it to me. I'll fix 'er up real good.

 

is your hard drive partitioned?

Meaning you have "2" hard drives in there?

If not you may want to.

What they do is take your 1 hard drive and divide it into 2.
I did this to mine. I have all my programs on one "hard drive" and everything else on the other. (music, MP3, Pictures, Documents etc..)

If my computer crashes, (windows become correupted) I simply reload over the top of the old program and I'm back in action.

 

I-man, that's a horrible, horrible idea. False sense of security. Soooo... if you have a hardware failure your screwed, partition or not. It's good from an orginizational standpoint... but doesn't help you 'protect' your data in any way shape or form.

Hardrives are so flippen dirt cheap now, go get an external HD for backup. Almost all are USB 2.0 and offer a 'one-touch' backup button. The whole HD copied... thats security. Go buy one right now.

 

Gotta give an amen to that one brother.

My images are on a duplicate hard drive, plus burnt to dvd.

 

What I would do is go over to www.computing.net and post every problem you have with it. There are some real geeks there and they can help ya out.

 

Ouch, My feelings are hurt...

 

computing.net... pffftt.. pimply faced losers. The pros are right here baby!

 

Well, no word yet, which is NOT very promising....

Thanks everyone for your support and info., i should have included I am NOT very computer literate, LOL, so some of your responses do not make much sense to me.

Anyways, Ill wait till he gives me a call and let you all know.

Dzervit: Are you serious? Would you be able to fix this thing if I shipped it to you? I did buy it new and have all of the disks that it came with and such. The most important things on there are in My Documents and My Pictures, lots of things that couldnt be replaced, ever...

Lemme know either way, thanks for listening!

 

Well, I can pretty much fix anything (assuming you have simple O/S corruption and didn't waste all the data). But before you take the drastic step of shipping it to a stranger - there are MANY other things I can walk you through if your bud can't get the job done. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dzervit
[B]Well, I can pretty much fix anything

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I'll let you ride one of my wife's llamas.