Startup Repair Issue - SP2 Issue?

I've read countless stories of an issue similar to mine but none that
match it exactly, and none of them have had solutions that work. I am
running Vista and recently installed SP2.

I noticed the Data Execution Prevention feature acting up a few days
ago. It had been closing COM Surrogate for weeks, but recently it
started closing IE as well. I don't use IE, but when programs like AIM
start they still open their welcome windows there. DEP started closing
the two programs even when they weren't necessarily open, so I started
trying to figure out how to make it stop. I found an online tutorial
that told me how to turn it off for certain programs, so I set IE as an
exception.

After rebooting it was still closing IE, so I tried running the command
prompt:

bcdedit.exe/set nx AlwaysOff

to turn it off. That didn't seem to work either, so I tried the first
option again, noticing that my changes hadn't been saved. I left the
laptop to reboot and went to get a shower. When I came back it still
said "Logging Off" and after several more minutes I did a hard
shut-down.

Now when the computer tries to load, it goes to the Vista Loading
screen for maybe a second before flashing the blue screen, going black,
then restarting with the option to start Vista normally (which starts
the cycle again) or run Startup Repair, which can't fix the problem.

I have lots of data on here that I CANNOT afford to lose: recording
sessions and student teacher work that, ironically, I was preparing to
backup onto an external drive. What can I do?

Thanks,
Chi


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Beatlesfan2222

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If you can remove your drive from the computer, you could easily access
your files on it from another computer by using an external enclosure or
USB->SATA (or USB->IDE) adapter.

Or if worse comes to worse, you can run a free program like EASEUS Disk
Copy:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

You burn the .iso image to a CD and boot your current computer from the CD.
You can then back your drive up to a USB drive.

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