text: If you have another working computer, you could take the hard drive out of that machine and put it in your other computer as a slave drive.  That way you can boot the working computer, and the transplanted hard drive will show up as the E:/ drive (or other letter, depending on what all is in your system) and you can copy all the files over.\n\nYou may need a special adapter to plug a notebook hard drive into a desktop computer, but you should be able to pick one up at radio shack for pretty cheap.