Retrieve Data when Windows Won’t Even Boot Up In Safe Mode:

If your hard drive crashes and Windows won’t even boot up in Safe Mode, you are NOT out of luck. Remove the hard drive from your pc carefully and install it in an external drive enclosure, which should cost around $30. Then connect that enclosure to a USB 2.0 port on a working OC. It will appear as a removable drive in MY COMPUTER, allowing you to peruse the drive and copy any files that haven’t been damaged. If your drive isn’t readable at all, you can pay a few hundred dollars to a data recovery firm, like Ontrack (www.ontrack.com), which will use specialized hardware to find any readable data on your drive.