[Goldeye]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

The physicaly dumping of memeory is the bad part and means you have lost all of your files. sorry to hear. I surely hope it wasn't the programming laptop. And that bring me to a key point back up any programs that you use on your laptop to a separate disk or HD!!!

Physical dump of memory refers to dumping the contents of RAM to the hard drive so the crash can be debugged. The data on your hard drive may or may not be safe, depending on if it was the hard drive that failed or not.

The 0x0000008E error indicates a kernel failure most likely due to faulty/corrupted drivers or a hardware problem.

Make sure all the parts inside the computer are attached properly.
Doing a repair installation of windows (shouldn't affect data) might fix the problem.
http://articles.networktechs.com/432-p1.php might help.