Blue Screen of Death

[mookarma]

Thanks guys.... I will try to get my computer whizz friend to hook it up to his computer, and suggest what you've all said. I guess new tires will have to wait even longer

[Bry]

Another vote here for testing the drive externally on another computer.
If it is completely dead, you *can* still retrieve the data, but it will cost more than a few dollars. I've worked with the Ontrack data recovery service a few times, and they can recover data from physically destroyed hard drives... but you will remember writing that check, it aint cheap.