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[quote="Bazooka_Joe":a9b9f]We get physical memory dumps here at work all the time. You fried the BIOS settings for the mobo on the hard drive. Only way to fix it is rebuild the PC. You CAN use a different hard drive, then once the OS is back up, plug in the HD as a slave, and retrieve your data.[/quote:a9b9f]

That sounds reasonable and somewhat reassuring. Are you saying I cannot reset my BIOS settings at startup?

While I would like to get my system back in full, my main concern is that I dont lose things that cant be replaced, like family photos. I just thought about burning a backup of my photo directory the other day and put it off. Ughh.....hindsite.