WINDOWS 7 – Start up repair offline!

Let me start by saying that I am a computer-idiot. Now that’s out of the way I will try my best to explain my situation.
I am running on an Asus R2 laptop, (well currently typing from mum’s pc). The other day I turned my laptop on. I had the asus logo pop up in the corner, then black screen, then black screen with windows logo, then random blue screen with white writing on jumped out of no where (and so fast I have no clue what it says), then I am faced with the windows repair screen.
After allowing it to do what it wanted for an hour (repair, restart, repair, restart, etc) it informs me start up repair was offline. I then googled my issue. I attempted to restore my poor little laptop from various points but the stubborn thing just keeps on happening. I attempted to write various pharses into my command prompt, eg; chkdsk /f /r, LIST PARTITION (bearing in mind I have no idea what a partition is or a chkdsk.) However, incorrect command and path does not exsist.
Can somebody pretty please explain how to revive my darling laptop or at the very least rescue my photos in plain english??? (ps I have no idea on how to link my hard drive to the pc – as previously suggested, nor do I wish to drop it on the floor and claim accidental damage!)
I am at your mercy. Please help. Sophia
Answer #1
Try tapping F8 when you boot, and you should be presented with a list of options.
First try – Last Known Good Configuration. If that doesn’t work you can use the same F8 method and choose Safe Mode. See if you can get into Windows that way first and then post back.
You can try a System Restore from Safe Mode – but it’s not reversible, you don’t lose any files.
You can also boot from a Live Linux CD such as Ubuntu if you want to get your photo’s off quickly, but you will need a pen-drive or external hard drive to copy them to. (Once you have booted to the linux cd, you can browse the hdd for your files).
The command you would want to use for Chkdsk would be Chkdsk C: /f That would just check and fix your file system, and would run at boot as it’s your operating system drive.
EDIT – you can get Ubuntu ISO from here, and burn it to a cd using IMGburn on your mums pc (there are many Linux distros you can use, but this is probably the fastest download). When burning the ISO – use the “Write Image file to disc” option.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download
http://www.imgburn.com
If you have the Win 7 disc – then boot from it, instead of doing the installation, run the startup repair. You may find the pc boots a couple of times during this, may be just a simple fix with the boot manager.