sadly i cannot say what s wrong with windows, if it will not boot to windows using the safe mode option, in my opinion you have big problems, i hope i am wrong, as my first impressions is that your hard drive has developed a bad sector (best descriced as a scratch on a record/CD)
one (long winded) way you can get the data, (or try) is by getting a hold of a floppy MS DOS boot disk, making sure that in your bios settings (pressing F1 or Del when you first switch on the computer and being shown a blue screen) that it tries to boot from the floppy drive first. its one of the settings. You can always exit and NOT save any changes if your unsure.
You then switch on your computer wth the disk in. From here you will have an ms dos prompt screen that you should be able to navigate your harddrive with, if you can navigate most folders fine you can then retrieve the information from it.
First you will have to type C: and press enter.
From here, the only commands you need are DIR - this lists all the files in the curent directory, and CD ???? where the ??? is a directory name. and CD.. ths takes you backwards one directory.
after searching a while and not getting any errors, it will seem your are ok to copy files off the drive.
But unless you have another computer you will need an understanding friend to help you.
You will need to take out the harddrive of your computer and change the jumper settings on it to make it a slave drve.
You will then need to fit the drive into your friends machine, load it in the bios screen, you can then eventually copy all the files onto your friends hard drive. once you have everything you can then format and reinstall windows on your hardrive and retrieve your information from your friends hard drive via various means, them burning a CD being the easiest.
I hope this helps and doesnt scare or confuse you too much.
or maybe helps someone come up with a much simpler answer..
Wishing you all the best...
If you need further help or assistane, feel free to PM me.
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