I can second the comment that a BSOD isn't necessarily the end of your computer. My freshly built computer had one recently - it was simply complaining about the printer driver! Updated the driver and it's happy as a clam again.
In another line of thought, my husband regularly picks up computers at the dump - they usually have very little wrong with them. He cleans them up and either we use them, or we give them away to people less fortunate than ourselves. Some of these were top-of-the-line laptops, simply clogged up by malware, etc.
It won't even come on. I can't get it to come out of repair mode. So that's dead. And before it died parts of the secondary drive were failing, so the more I ran it the more I damaged the drive.
Checking my backup in the cloud, I did back-up everything I needed. So that part's good.
I am currently adapting with my laptop and an external harddrive.
Darn. That's not good.
Something I've done in the past that really saved me when a Windows install/drive failed was to create a dual-boot machine (Windows and Ubuntu/Linux) - it's easier than it sounds. That gives you another access point to your save files. Ideally, you want to save your files onto a different drive than where your operating system is install - especially when you're dealing with Windows.
Anyway, I hope you get everything you needed. I seem to have lost a nice picture I took last year - and I suspect it was on the laptop that died as I can't account for it anywhere else. (Don't know why it came off the camera, to be honest, as I don't normally delete them from there...)