What do you recommend? System Restore or Computer Repair?

Question

My laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8600 series, recently crashed completely. It's showing the infamous 'blue screen of death' and says that it's an insurmountable boot volume(?) (sorry, I don't remember exactly what it said, but it had to do with the boot volume.)

The whole issue is outlined in my other question. But anyway, my issue is this: I do have files on there that I'd like to recover, and basically there are two ways I've got to go about this.

1) Take it into a computer repair shop and have them shove my entire hard-drive onto an external HD. Which will be a pain, because my laptop was pretty cluttered.

And 2) Hope that a system restore will fix the problem and I'll be able to use some software I already have to recover the few files that I'd like to save.

I'd much rather go with the second option, because it seems so much simpler, but my fear is that a system restore wont fix the problem and I'll be stuck with no hope of ever retrieving those files (the restore having wiped them completely). Is there a chance that a restore won't fix the problem? What do you recommend that I do?

Answer 1

Use system Restore. If you don't like what it did, you can always go back to the way you had it before. There is nothing dangerous about doing it. Now, if that doesn't work, I'd say take it into a shop. They would know what to do. But try System Restore first. It wont harm anything.

Answer 2

well if you have the Windows Xp or Vista Disc (not recovery disc) you can try and install the OS over the existing one But make sure not to format the drive and that way all you will have to do is install all the programs you need even though they are on the computer all the registry entries are invalid so your will need to install all your programs again but your files should still be intact since your didnt format(erase) your drive.

The other option is to take your computer to a shop and have them use a hard drive craddle and get all your files that you need and put them on a disc or a USB drive then you can just reinstall your OS

im not quite sure how you will would do a system restore if your computer has the blue screen of death and you cant get in.  

Answer 3

Hello,

If you can initiate proposals on a systematic reduction, could not be activated only on the re-installation of the system

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