Laptop crash dump \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 help

At a guess \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 will be a USB stick or external hard disk.

What is the STOP error message and the line of error codes (0x??????? etc)

On the BSoD (Blue Screen of Death)

To prevent your computer automatically restarting following a BSoD, do the following:

Click Start, type Adv into the search box, click on View Advanced System Settings in the Control Panel category. Click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery. System Failure should look similar to this:



(this is from a Windows 7 machine, but yours should be the same except it will say Vista at the top)

Tick or untick as necessary so you have:
a tick against Write an event to the system log,
no tick against Automatic restart.

Select Kernel memory dump from the Write debugging information drop-down.

no tick against Overwrite any existing file

Click the OK > OK to get back to desktop



Alternatively install Who Crashed which will read the crash dump files

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

backup and run chkdsk on the external drive