Well, I got my first BSoD on my laptop the other day, and this one has been a real pain. I came home from work, booted up windows, but it gave me the message that Windows did not shut down properly last time and that there was an error. When I chose to restart with last known good configuration, windows attempts to reboot, then gives me a blue screen of death. However, here's the trick. I can't tell what the blue screen is telling me, as it only appears for about 1 second before the whole computer just shuts off entirely. No matter what booting option I chose (safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with command prompt, restart windows regularly, etc) it boots up, flases blue for a second and shuts down. So, from what I can tell, it is impossible for me to determine the message of the blue screen, as I can't read it fast enough, and it is impossible for me to boot up windows in any capacity. Do I have a prayer of being able to resolve this without doing a system restore? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Same thing happen to me, I was playing a pc game and the computer frozed, so I just turned it off with the power switch. When I restarted computer I got the blue screen. when I went into the bios the hard drive had some strange letters and symbols on it. I thought I had fried the hard drive. But when I removed it and slaved it to another computer all the data was still there. Eventually I just used a recent true image backup that I had done, and restored it back to the same hard drive. that fix the problem for me. The hard drive and computer has been running fine for the past 3 months. I think something got corrupted in the hard drive but it only affected the system partition, all the other data seemed ok. I don't know if system restore might be able to help you in this case. But I think your hard drive is probably still good. Something I didn't do, but think that might have helped is to run a full scandisk on the hard drive. You might have to run it off an installation bootdisk. Maybe that can fix it.
You could also do a non-destructive system restore, which keeps your files and settings while restoring system files. If you could get into windows somehow, there's a way that you can keep the blue screen longer, but since safe mode doesn't work, there isn't much you can do. If you have another hard drive available, try installing that as a master (like jony said).
