After awaking this morning I discovered that my Windows system had provided me with the Blue Screen of Death. It stated there was a problem and that windows was shutdown to avoid data loss and that I should reboot my system. I followed the instructions, and upon reboot received a “Insert Boot Disk to Continue” message. I jumped into BIOS and ran a SMART check on the hard drive and everything came back normal. Next I inserted my boot disk and it came back with the usual, Repair, Format, Exit options. I chose repair and the program started but hung up and didn’t budge. After several attempts trying to get the recovery software to work I decided to yank the bad drive and just run on the second hard drive. I did a clean install of Windows and everything worked fine on the new drive. I reentered BIOS and changed the booting order of the SATA Drives so that the good drive boots first. I then connected the bad drive back to the system and rebooted. The computer boots until it hits the windows loading screen and then it hangs…nothing, zip, nada. I am stuck and now don’t know what to do. I really need some data off of this bad drive, I have everything backed up except my outlook e-mail and some minor buisness files. But there are also a couple of critical things I need that didn’t make it to my next scheduled backup date. Any help would be appreciated.
