I've got my laptop (WinXP Home) stuck in an endless blue screen that started with one saying there was a problem with that aswSP.sys file (that was on or right after Thanksgiving). I didn't realize at the time that it was an Avast file, though I do recall noting before all my problems began that Avast had been disabled somehow and I had been planning to reboot and try and get it running again. But now I've got nothing but blue screens and I *can't get into Windows at all* (am on a borrowed computer at the moment), so from what I can tell, "minidumps" are not an option for me. When I try to boot into safe mode, I get a blue screen that says there's a page fault in an nonpaged area or something along those lines. Trying to start any other way just produces a generic blue screen that tells me to check hardware, software, disk space, blah, blah, blah, with those mysterious Microsoft codes that even their knowledgebase can't seem to decipher.
At the very least, I need a way to access my data (browser bookmarks, passwords in my password program, photos and videos that I hadn't backed up yet) and, if necessary, format the drive and reinstall Windows.
I've googled and googled and nothing I've come across has worked. Can anyone here help me?