Hey guys,
A friend of mine is having PC issues. He started getting a blue screen the other day when trying to boot a PC with XP. Basically, here's the situation:
All safe modes don't work - they load up a blue screen (for 1 second, a flash of a blue screen basically) and then restarts the PC.
The regular load gives a blue screen with non-english characters on one line (it basically gets to the windows XP loading bar screen and goes to the blue screen after about 4-5 seconds of that).
Is it possible for me to load linux or XP from a flash drive or CD and get ahold of stuff on the hard drive before reformatting?
Any other way for me to get to the data that doesn't involve me opening up the laptop and taking the hard drive out?
Thanks guys!
-Pat
A friend of mine is having PC issues. He started getting a blue screen the other day when trying to boot a PC with XP. Basically, here's the situation:
All safe modes don't work - they load up a blue screen (for 1 second, a flash of a blue screen basically) and then restarts the PC.
The regular load gives a blue screen with non-english characters on one line (it basically gets to the windows XP loading bar screen and goes to the blue screen after about 4-5 seconds of that).
Is it possible for me to load linux or XP from a flash drive or CD and get ahold of stuff on the hard drive before reformatting?
Any other way for me to get to the data that doesn't involve me opening up the laptop and taking the hard drive out?
Thanks guys!
-Pat