Blue Screen

[Aragon of Odin]

Never actually had to deal with this before, I assume it's the blue screen of death I'm dealing with here though.

Anyways, I use an Asus G75(Tiger Direct version) and I upgraded the HD to a SSD when I got it(roughly 3-4 years ago). Laptop has been amazing, hasn't given me any problems until now. I went to start it up, starts logging onto Windows then I get a quick 1 second flash of a blue screen(not enough to read what it actually says) and then it restarts instantly and brings me to a screen with "Start Windows normally"(which if you choose will just keep restarting until you choose the 2nd option) or "Start windows repair" or something along those lines, when you choose that option it starts going through partitions and shit, so I assume it's to format the SSD and start all over again.

Laptop has 2 drives, the SSD as the main drive and the HDD that came with the laptop I just slid into the second bay and use it for storing movies/pics and stuff. I'm pretty sure that when I had set it up, that I left the OS on the HDD as well as putting it on the SSD, so I'm pretty sure that if I switch the HDD back to the main bay that it should start up normally, just without updates over the past 4 years.

So, is there anything I can do to fix this? Or will I have to go through the steps and format the SSD losing everything? I have stuff on this drive that I'd like to try and salvage, pictures mainly, so if it's possible and there's a way around not formatting the drive I'd like to try.

Pretty sure it Windows 8, not sure if that makes a difference.

Any advice is much appreciated!

[Melena]

you can always swap the drives, so you boot on your old one, and see if windows recognizes the SSD so you can back everything up before formatting it and reinstalling windows.

[Aragon of Odin]

And the chance that I'm wrong and don't have the OS on my other drive, is there anything I can do at that point?

[Melena]

If you have another pc, get an external hdd enclosure that works with 2.5" hard drives, connect the SSD to it and plug it into the other computer, it should pull up as an external drive and you can pull the information that way.

[Aragon of Odin]

Thank you! Don't have another PC, but getting access to one is easy enough.

Is there anyway to figure out why this happened though? Or is it not worth the time trying to figure it out? I just don't see why it happened out of the blue when it's been working perfectly fine up till now.

[Niya]

Finding out why would first require to find out what BSOD your system is throwing. Whoever thought of that stupid auto-reboot on error...
Anyway, for the BSOD to stay longer you'd have to hammer F8 like crazy when windows starts loading (at least on Vista and 7, 8 and 10 are too fast with booting...) to get an extra text menu that offers stuff like temporarily disabling driver signature check and, the thing you want, disabling auto-reboot. If you check that, on next boot the BSOD should stay long enough to write down the STOP code and some more info.