A week or so ago I installed a customized XP on my computer, earlier this morning I got BSOD. No way too boot it up at all, it's a notebook so options are limited for me. I could chose to reformat and forget about every customization or I could try and solve this problem. I have googled all day but found nothing that would help. I could use a livecd, backup the content to an external drive and then reinstall XP. If I do, is it possible to retrieve the content from the back, including the settings? Theoretically it should work, or not. This sucks because I need it for school and personal projects which I just managed to get starting on. Oh well.

After several hours of work and about to give up for the day and save current work, the application became unresponsive but still up, not running though. Should I give up or try to save the data that hasn't been saved? How would I go about doing that? Can I dump the memory and restore it in another process? Or dump the memory and try to extract what different from the saved data? Or is it an easier way, other then spending more hours to redo it all?