The key to your solution is boot cd(s).
You could try and use UltimateBootCD4Windows since it has alot of utilities for people more used to the windows UI.
However, usually your just better off scubbing windows for a reinstall after you back up your data rather than try and repair it.
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INSERT - My personal favorite live cd for back ups since its small, has support for NTFS and has a simple GUI. There are several other options here though since there are many boot cds that can read ntfs and back up your data.
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here, you have to burn it to a cd. it comes in .iso format which is a standard cd image if you have not used iso before. If you dont have anything to burn the iso (something like nero) i recommend imgburn for windows. its a no mess iso burner/creator free of charge.
After you burn the cd put it in your cd/dvd drive of the broken computer. boot the computer and make sure it boots from a cd. This can be done in the bios or hitting something like F12 at post. Make sure your usb drive is plugged in and turned on before you boot.
the cd will continue to boot and as long as there are no serious hardware problems with either cpu, ram, mobo, cdrom, psu, or gpu, you will be looking at the desktop of the livecd
after closing the initial browser window, right click the desktop and navigate to emelfm(superuser mode) Its somewhere under the apps menu.
emelfm will be a 2 pane file browser meaning it shows one folder on the left and one folder on the right.
dourblle click the .. a few times till it stops changing. this is essentially clicking the up-directory arrow in windows. after you get to the top directory, you should see a folder that says /mnt.
double click this folder and you should see a few folders things like /sda1 (internal SATA - first partition) /hda1 (internal ATA/PATA - first partition) /sdb1 (external usb - partition 1)
right click each of these folders and select mount. This will mount the drive(so you can browse) as long as there are no errors you should be able to find your data on the drives.
in the right pane browse to that /mnt folder and then to your external usb drive.
now that you have your data in the left pane for recovery and the drive to back it up to in the right, all you have to do is sleced the folders for copying and hit the copy button and it should just copy it off.
once your done copping all the data, right click the desktop, and select halt/exit and reboot the computer. it should eject the cd and ask you to hit enter to continue.
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