Blue Screen Of Death, Windows CD wont load?

dvdfan

Hey,

Just bought an XPS 64 bit machine and after 5 days was working away no lag or nothing and a blue screen appearaed saying something like Fatal Error Page Header and since then when i turn it on it just keeps beeping like mad but it dosent even start at all so i cant even get to safe mode or bios or anything.

Dont mind having to reinstall but i have 1 very important file i need to get off it. So i have another PC here and i was about to take out the hard drive and make it a slave in my other PC to access the Data but its a new type of hard drive SATA so it cant be put into the older PC, i.e the old ones have pins and these new ones are like,... well i dont know but there different:D

Question is i presume theres nothing i can do to repair but what about recovering my data, can you buy something that lets me plug the new SATA drive into it and then connect that by USB to recover my info or dopes such a thing even exist or what do you recommend?

biologikal

Several options:

A USB->SATA/IDE cable like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-to-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-Hard-Drive-Converter-Cable_W0QQitemZ250308251659QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250308251659&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1308&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

A SATA enclosure: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-5-USB-2-0-SATA-IDE-EXTERNAL-HARD-DRIVE-HDD-CASE-UK_W0QQitemZ260305667673QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item260305667673&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

A PCI->SATA card: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-Port-SATA-1-IDE-PCI-Card-ATA-Controller-Raid-VIA-PC_W0QQitemZ380075348135QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item380075348135&_trkparms=72%3A1300%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

If you have a Linux boot/live-CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu, you might be able to boot up the PC and recover the file onto a USB stick (it will depend on what the problem with your PC is exactly, and from what you describe, it sounds like you will have difficulty booting any CD/DVD).

Have you tried some simple possible remedies, like re-seating the RAM and component connections? Are there any diagnostic LEDs that might give you an idea of whats wrong? Or do the number of beeps give any indication?

dvdfan

Cheers Anyway, rang Dell and they done the checks and there coming out wednesday to replace the cmos and motherboard so at least its nothing wrong with the hard drive so ill save all my info hopefully

nobeastsofierce

Thats good news, but you still should really get any/all important data off it before you send it back to dell, you're probably signing somewhere that you agree they're not responsible for your data

Edit: reread, they're fixing it inhome, much better