N100 3000; Does not boot up; Lenovo blue screen

I bought my N100 few years back (Running Vista home edition). Battery has been dead for a while. It has been working fine by directly using the power source.
Couple of weeks ago, it restarted itself. But, it never got beyond initial "Lenovo" blue screen. Hard Disk light comes on momentarily, then nothing.... I can not even go to "Lenovo care". Nothing happens when I press "Lenovo care" button. The only button it recognizes is on/off button.
The only think I did a few days before this issue was using compress option to gain some space on my hard disk. But, did not see any issues after compress was done.
At this point, I will be happy to be able to recover my files from my N100 (I did not foolishly backup my files).
Any help is greatly appreciated.

F1 key did not work. My laptop does not respond to anything at Lenovo screen (it has white back drop not blue as mentioned earlier).
However, when I removed Hard Drive, it proceeded beyond Lenovo screen and displayed a message that OS is not present (Which makes sense). Does anyone know how I can get a boot CD? This way, I may be able to attempt running recovery utility on my Hard Disk.
Thanks,

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