Laptop won't start up. Can only get to Rescue and Recovery

My ThinkPad T61 7658-CTO will not start up. I tried the system restore and that would not work either. I never backedup on a disk and I have old photos and videos that I would hate to lose.
When I run the troubleshooting message, it says: Root Cause found. Boot critical file c:\ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt. The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable (0X80070570).
I'm devastated. Someone, please help!
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Message Edited by nonny on 10-26-2008 11:51 PM

Hello Abdulrahman Almannai,
The Apple Knowledge Base article found here may help.
Be sure to follow the steps in the order given carefully.
hope that helps some,
littleshoulders [:-)

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My computer is having hardware problems. I'm at the point of giving up completely on the computer, but I had a few files that I wanted to recover from it first. I've had Hard Drive issues before and usually just have to push the blue Thinkvantage button and rescue and recovery comes up.
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