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HI,
Setting it up as a slave drive is a good suggestion. Another way you can do that is with a usb external drive enclosure. Compusa has good one for 39.00 store brand. When you are done seeing if you can get any data off of your drive, you can use the usb drive as a backup. All you have to do is buy a new HD when they are on sale. I just picked up a 120 gig for 39. after rebates. THere are a ton of easy backup programs out there or just do a simple file copy yourself every month or so. Anyway, If when you plug the drive in and it spins up, if you can hear it spin up and make some light tick tick tick tick tick tick you may be in good shape. If when it spins up you hear some clanky, or louder not rythmic clicks or clacks, you have a head problem and the only safe way to get data off of the drive is to send it to a recovery place. That will be anywhere from 500 to 1000.
Since you got the blue screen of death they way you described, in my experiences there may be some hope of hooking it up to another pc or usb. Some files that windows needed may have gotten corrupted.
There are a couple of last ditch and I mean last ditch methods. One is to put the drive in the freezer for a while and try to spin it up. Don't know why this works, but I have heard it can. Another one is to hold it firmly in one hand and smack it down on a table. CAUTION: do not try those unless you are ready to throw the drive away. They haven't worked for me, but you never know.
Good luck,
Eric
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