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Thank you Ken. You'll have t tell me what you would like better than the Ring Dings.

Or, buy a Mac.


Sorry.


Cleaning ceiling fans. It does strange things to me.

Thrilled.....!

Have gotten into the "Recovery" option. Am doing diagnostic tests!

Woo hoo! So you got ahold of a disk?

No.....for whatever reason, the F11 recovery option worked when it hadn't worked previously. It SEEMS to be good, working off a recovery point from several days earlier.

Now to make a new set of recovery discs and back up the various folders onto disc.

I thought I was doing good by backing up the system weekly. This was the first time I foresaw the situation where I might not even get to the point of being able to use that back up system.

Maybe I should look into a new system to replace this while I can still get Win7Pro. It doesn't seem like Win8 is all that popular.

I don't believe this was a hardware issue, but it's still a 5-year-old system running Vista.

Seriously, thank you guys for holding my hand though this scary experience!

Eff You See Kay!

BSOD.

Did you get stuff off before it went? I'd say at this point your best bet (if you don't trust your backups) is to boot the thing via a linux recovery disk and copy your data off.

I got it back up again (I know, I know) and am backing up files as we "speak".

Dude, I know the feeling. Any idea what the bluescreen said? That might help us track down the issue.

Mark,

I was following this but didn't comment based on my lack of techno babble. I will, however, accept any dollars you would like to send for my support. :-)

Having said that, you mentioned a 5 year old system. May be worthwhile to run chkdsk, or better yet, just replace the hard drive(s) with something new. And get an OEM copy of Windows 7 while you are at it.

As a side note, when I had my new build done in October, I had it set up with a 256GB SSD for the operating system and programs and have all the other stuff go to 2 other 1 TB HDDs. The system absolutely screams.