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Is your hard drive seen in the BIOS?
Well I suspect it might be that your hard disk is dying..so..just put the windows 7 sytem repair dvd ... and rescue your data using .. at command prompt type notepad.exe.. then file ..open.. and then select all files.. and then restore your data on a usb .. and then try whatever you want to
P.S When you do a copy and paste using this notepad.exe method it would not show you the progress bar
An alternative to nooruddin's suggestion is this
BOOTABLEUBUNTU
Makea bootable Ubuntu disk http://www.ubuntu.com/download
Setthe BIOS to boot from the optical when the machine boots it will show you ascreen with TRY or INSTALL > select TRY
Whenit is finished - it takes very little time you will get a screen like in thepic .
Openthe drive you want > User and dig down until you get to the data / settingsyou may be able to copy / paste the material you want to an external source orother installed drive doing this.
Iam not sure if it will but I have recovered tons of data etc using this methodboth on "dead" or just plain drives that you cannot get data fromusing Windows.
This way you don't need to boot Windows at all and if you have access to another machine then with a USB to SATA gadget the hard drive can still be accessed.