Ugh! If my computer goes into DOS from Windows & says "Fatal Errors, Dumping Memory", can my stuff still be recovered?

Ugh! If my computer goes into DOS from Windows & says "Fatal Errors, Dumping Memory", can my stuff still be recovered Uuuuugh! If my computer goes into DOS from Windows & says "Fatal Errors, Dumping Memory", can my documents and pictures and stuff be recovered or are they gone, gone, gone forever?

Someone please hand me a box of Kleenex, just in case I don't like the answers. Asked by LSW 47 months ago Similar questions: Ugh computer DOS Windows Fatal Errors Dumping Memory stuff recovered Computers > Hardware > Desktops & Laptops.

Similar questions: Ugh computer DOS Windows Fatal Errors Dumping Memory stuff recovered.

If you're talking about the "Blue Screen of Death" or BSOD, in all likelihood your data is safe. If any data is lost, it's only what you were just working on that hadn't been saved to disk. The BSOD is usually an indication of a driver problem or a hardware problem, that you will have to get help to fix (judging from how you asked your question).

Worst case, if you can't boot, your drive can be installed in another computer and the data can then be copied to a new secure location. Of course, if you've done your backups, you have no worries . Yeah I know, I haven't done them either..

If the hard drive has not had a fatal failure everything can be recovered. Well, there are several ways to recover your files. 1.

- You can fix your Windows by using the installation cd and perform a reinstallation of the operating system. Not a new copy or a fresh install because this will destroy everything. Just a reinstall, this won't change anything, will just fix your windows so you can access all your programs and files after that.2.

- If your drive it's still been recognized by the BIOS than you can take your hard drive out of your PC and install it in another PC as a second hard drive (slave drive), that way just access all your files to copy them to a CD, DVD or Pen drive 3. - If your files are not in the boot partition (usually C:) you can do a fresh install from your windows installation CD. This will make that you loose all your programs.

But if your files reside in another partition of the hard drive they will be safe. Usually the ideal configuration is: install Windows in drive C and all your files (docs, pictures, mails, music, etc) in drive D, E or F... This way if something happens you just do a clean fresh installation of Windows in drive C and all the rest files in drives D, E, etc... remain untouched.4. - You can buy another hard dirve, install it in your PC, install Windows in that drive and then proceed with solution 2 5.

- If your hardrive it's almost dead and none of the previous solutions work still you can send it to the manufacturer and ask him to recover what they can and send you a CD with all your files. This is costly, it will cost more than a new hard drive. All this can be complicated if you are a normal PC user.

Sorry if you don't have a clue of what I am talking but this what I would do if that happened to me. What version of Windows are you using? XP?

Do you have a laptop or a PC?.

NO... two ways to handle this. First, try popping in the install disc and booting off it. It will give you a "Repair/Recovery" option.

You will, most likely, lose your installed programs (they will still be there, but the registry will be wiped clean, so no-go on them). DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE SAY "YES" IF IT OFFERS TO FORMAT. Re-install windows OVER the old install of windows, DO NOT FORMAT!

Your second option is to pop that misbehaving computer open, get that misbehaving hard drive outta there, and then put in another hard drive and do a clean & serene install of windows. Then get yourself an external hard drive enclosure (like 25 bucks) and slap that "bad" drive in there and plug it in via USB. Then browse the drive and retrieve your docs and pics and whatnot.

Sources: sysAdmin .... done both of these methods more times then I can count.

Fatal, not so Fatal means fatal for that run. Your other files are probably okay. Reboot the computer and they'll probably there.

Not a bad idea to make a backup and virus scan.

More then likely your stuff can be recovered -- not sure about your psychological trauma.... The memory dump is a normal reaction to Fatal System Error, and suggests that your hard disk might still be alive and well (or mostly well). It does sound like you've experience a hardware error or some corruption of your system files. *** If the system seems like it has encountered serious errors and you have data or photos on the system you want recovered, you would be better served to have someone qualified look at it rather then risk further damage that might imact the ability to recover information.

That being said, you might be able to take some stps to identify what's going on: When you boot the system, does it give any indication of what the error is? If you're familiar with the BIOS setting of your computer -- usually the message that says "Press F1, F10, F11, F12 or DEL to enter setup" (it'll only have one of those options) -- you can look to make sure "fast Boot" or "QuickBoot" is disabled. With this disable, you'll get the brief information screen that might indicate the computers problems: - S.M.A.R.T.Status on your hard drive(s)?

- The right number of drives showing? - The correct amount of physical RAM? - Any other error messages?

If that provide no hints or is beyond your ability, there are two other options to try -- other special boot options made available by pressing F8 after you see the logo screen just after turning on the computer. Normally you can always get to these options by just turning on the computer and hitting F8 about every two seconds until you see the special boot menu. Once you see the special boot menu you can try: "Last known good configuration" which might work if some setting was changed during your last session....and/or... "Safe Mode" which will attempt to load Windows withoout any device drivers which may eliminate some hardware/software items on your machine as a source of the conflict or error.

If those fail, you may want to send a note or post what results you do get. If there is disk corruption you're not going to want to flog the system too much before having someone try to access recovery utilities using a different computer with your hard drive (removed from the system). Hope that helps, and the psychological trauma is short lived!

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