Computer help please?

sarolynne's desktop computer is giving her the blue screen of death. Amongst other things of importance, all her stories and story notes are on it, and since the CD burner and the external harddrive are both dead, she hasn't been able to make a backup in a long while.

I dunno about you guys, but my first reaction to that was AUGH. As a writer, it's the equivalent of a guy wincing in deep horror and automatically crossing his legs as he hears about someone else getting nailed in the privates with a baseball bat. ~__~

She's getting a registry file failure that won't let her start Windows XP. She tried starting in safe mode but even then it still failed.

She says the error she's getting seems like it's normally associated with trying to install incompatable hardware, or trying to totally restart the system fresh, which she didn't do either.

If anyone has a suggestion, she'll be happy to hear it. She's got some access to the internet via her father's computer; I'll forward stuff to her. (or she can check this entry, i dunno XD; ) She's going to be offline for a few hours starting now, so I can't give more details, but she will once she comes back. I'm just asking now because, well, by then I'll be asleep. =__=;; Mmh, the joys of living in different time zones.