Corrupted Partition and Continous Reboot problem

Hi,

Last night when I went to bed I left my computer running. This morning
there was a blue screen of death. Unusal on this computer, since its
about 1 month old, never happened before. I reboot the system (hard
reboot). As soon as the computer and the Windows XP logo shows up, the
computer reboots itself. Then I get to the safe boot mode, any boot
option it will not work, as soon as it hits the Windows XP screen and
starts loading, it reboots.

1) I took Win XP CD and booted to it, then went to repair/reinstall
operating system option. At this screen it could see the hard disk, but
could not recognize the partition without formating it.
2) I then booted to the XP recovery console. When I tried something
like "dir" it would not allow me to saying access denied
3) I ran FIXMBR C: and nothing happened (no response)
4) I ran FIXBOOT, it said it could not identify the partitition, so it
re-identified it as NTSF (which it is)
5) I am now running through chkdsk /r which is running through slowly
(at 52%)

The priority to save the priceless data on the hard disk, even if the
hard disk went bad (although its new). I have priceless photos and
documents that I spent years working on. Yes, I had backups but
ironically two days ago I erased my DVD-RW with backup preparing to
make a new backup this week (updated) Now its all on this disc that I
cannot boot.

The hard disk is a SATA WD 74gig 10,000RPM.

Rest of the system is:
Athlon64 4000+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium MB
2gig Corsair XMS memory
MSI NVIDIA 7800GTX
Plextor 712 EIDE DVD-Writer

It's Windows XP Pro (32-bit); the system is self-built, one month old,
no other hardware was added last couple of days.

I have another older computer (p4 1.8) with an 120gig EIDE disk. I
could start backing stuff up, however I do not have a SATA interface on
this computer. I could go to local computer store and pickup an
interface.

Please any help would be appreciated. Any course of action recommend

Kind regards,

George B.

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