I think I killed my computer

[sestree]

I'm crossposting this from my Yahoo 360 blog.  

EDIT:  I tried rebooting from the start up CDs and I can't even get that to work. :(

OK so I have been having some computer issues for the last 5 days or so.  Something was lugging my system down and turning off my McAfee virus protection.  I scanned clean multiple times and AdAware and Spybot didn't find anything either.  Then starting yesterday morning it started locking up a LOT so I tried to defrag, got a HUGE error, and it booted up a couple more times after that.

C/P

Really I am only wanting one more bootup so I can recover my files.  This is the screen (verbatim) that I see when I turn the power on:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer.  If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.  If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows upodates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove (yeah how??) any newly installed hardware or software.  Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.  If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then Select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP:  0x000000ED (0x81AD6498, 0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I get this in safe mode, previous settings, and regular mode.   The only thing I uninstalled was a couple of programs that were never used.  For the most part yesterday I couldn't get the computer to stay up and not lock up long enough to do anything.  Remember I tried to defrag yesterday?  Well I got a hard error that shut down my computer.  When I turned it back on the error flashed on the screen and told me it had shut down and sent the information to microsoft.

Does this error message look familiar to anyone?  I think it stumped pyllgrum as well.

Any suggestions other than go get my flintlock?  I really do hate to lose all the info on there poor thing.  It's only 4 years old - my old 1999 HP desktop is still going and going and going LOL.

Comments

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

You could boot to CD, but there's not much you can do from there. I think in order to do the chkdsk suggested in the link, you have to boot via a floppy or CD.