Ok first and foremost, thanks for even reading this.
 
Now, to descirbe the problem.
p4 2.6 HT, 80gb hitachi sata HD
 
Now about a week ago I went to bed with the computer on and woke up with it turned off. I turned the machine on and it posted, began the windows boot, then as soon as the windows xp pro splash screen popped up the monitor clicked, and I was back in the post.
 
Something is going horribly wrong.
 
I ran Norton from cd in dos, no virus, ran Hitachi drive fitness test, the drive is a-ok. Now, got into Windows XP Setup (as I was just going to reinstall windows over the OS partition that I created) and I hit the F6 to load additional SATA drivers, still good. Finally I'm at the screen to install windows pro, I press enter, and the screen goes to BSOD ntfs error, run chkdsk /f.
 
So I go BACK into windows setup and try to run Recovery console and get the exact same error. I can't run chkdsk if I can't get into windows setup, and I can't get into windows setup with my BSOD, and while I can do a direct format via the Hitachi disk I really can't lose the 4 years of high school documents saved on here.
 
Help, help, help, I'm out of OPTIONS!
 
Thanks,
Austin
 
austinc[at]gmail.com