Laptop has given up on me, and its full of Photos. Mostly irreplacable memories of my son. Is there anyway to save the harddrive atleast?
Laptop is a Compaq, at start up it comes up with the black screen and gives me 2 choices:

Start windows Normally (not recommended) which I've tried several times and returns me to the first screen again
Windows Startup Repair (returns computer to a stage where it had no issues without losing data) which fails to restore it

I can select a recovery tool from the following:
Startup Restore
System Restore
Windows Complete PC Restore
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Command Prompt
Recovery Manager

Thanks