[wdvltalk] Serious hard drive problem

[Diane Schips]

I'm trying to help my parents with their computer.  It keeps freezing.  
They were running Windows 98se, so I sought to upgrade them to Windows 
200 prof.  At the point where the OS starts looking for installed 
components, it freezes.  Rebooting doesn't help, it just keeps freezing.

I tried putting the hard drive in another computer.  I get past the 
notification that it has been upgraded to NTFS, then I get the blue 
screen of death.  If I try to use it as a slave, I get a message that it 
is unformatted.

Nothing was backed up of course.
Is there anything I can do to save the data?
Diane
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