HP Pavilion 15-n253sv Notebook Computer does not start (Windows 8)

Hello, yesterday my laptop shut down and since then it cannot start.
Even with repair/install disks of windows (8.1) or Linux, it recognises the disk,  gets to the first menu (of the Linux disk) or the press any key to boot from cd/dvd (on windows disk) but then it get to a blank screen and does nothing else.
I run the System tests (quick and extensive) and both found (pretty quickly I might add) an error on the HDD (I think).
the error Id istrk03-74j79q-mfpv6j-60wc03 but I cannot find any reference of that on the web.
I suppose that since it is a hardware issue I will have to take it to HP support, the main thing that concerns me (as you might have already guested) is if I might lose any files.
Thank you in advance
Orestes

Yes, I just took it to a service support and they told me just that, if I want to keep my files I would have to pay extra.
The live cd solution was my first thought too but (as I wrote at my original post) it doesn't seem to be hopeful either.
It gets to the first stage of the disks (boot menu of linux live disk/press any key to boot from disk on the windows disk) and then it gets to blank screen doing nothing as well, also the optical drive stopped reading the disk (that is how I figure that's doing nothing). :-(
Anyway thank you for your good will but I suppose I would have to pay for the recovery if I do not want to void my warranty.
PS:By the way and since you mentioned it, the issue with the bootable disks can it be connected with the hard disk failure?

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