Yes. Mount the drive in a working system as a secondary (in an external case or internally as a slave or on the secondary channel). Boot the system and copy your data to the working drive.
See above. Mount the drive in a working system and copy what you can, while you can. Repair/restore is fine - AFTER a backup is made.
Doing it without a backup is like skydiving without a parachute. I have seen too many instances of relativley minor problem turn into major disasters because of lack of backup recently.
If you don't have another system, disconnect the drive, buy a new hard drive (they're dirt cheap) and install the OS. Then connect the other drive as a slave and copy the data.
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I would try a few things before running PC Restore. Disconnect any and all peripherals and try the XP recovery console:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1056979&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs
Post back with your results.
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Doing it without a backup is like skydiving without a parachute. I have seen too many instances of relativley minor problem turn into major disasters because of lack of backup recently.
If you don't have another system, disconnect the drive, buy a new hard drive (they're dirt cheap) and install the OS. Then connect the other drive as a slave and copy the data.