When I try to boot up my laptop (Windows XP Home) I get a blue screen and a message that says,
"Stop: c0000221 {Bad Image Checksum}
The image SHDOCVW.dll is possibly corrupt. The header checksum does not match the computed checksum."
I looked this up on Google and basically it looks like part of my HD is corrupt. Now, here's the kicker. I have a big final exam tomorrow (in 22 hours) and all of my notes are on this laptop. If I could somehow boot it up temporarily and throw everything onto a USB key or something then that'd be grand, but I don't know how. So, I guess I need help making a functioning boot disk or something that will help me get to my notes.
I tried repairing off of the XP install disk, but I don't know the admin password for this computer (I got it from Dell and stupidly didn't reinstall Windows) so I couldn't do anything. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Download and burn yourself a Knoppix LiveCD. That will automatically mount your hard drive and let you copy files off onto a USB drive (assuming your hard drive isn't completely hosed).
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Knoppix or pulling the drive are the two ways to do this.
Have you checked that?