Satellite A300 is not working

My laptop has crashed. When I turn on the laptop I get a black screen asking me to select either startup repair (doesn't work) or start Windows normally (doesn't work).
I am then presented with System Recovery Options (start up repair, system restore, windows comple pc restore, windows memory diagnostic tool, command prompt, toshiba recovery wizard). No matter what optioin i select, nothing works. I have tried the recovery wizard but it advises i will lose all data.
I can't afford to lose all my data as it will mean i also lose itunes and i wont be able to deauthorise the computer.
I also have alot of photos and other important info.
I dont have any back up disks (they were not supplied when i purchased the laptop).
Hoping someone can help as i really need to retriend my everything.
HELP!!

> I dont have any back up disks (they were not supplied when i purchased the laptop).
The Recovery disk are not supplied because you have to create the recover disks using the preinstalled software called Toshiba Recover disk creator (I guess this is mentioned in user manual )
But this is the same recover procedure provided by Toshiba recovery wizard which you can find press F8.
Both procedures (HDD recovery or Recovery disk) would format the HDD.
I think you should boot the notebook using Live CD. You can use Linux Live CD or WinPE (or BartPE).
Google for that
These CD would boot an Windows or Linux environment and would get a access to the files on the HDD.
Then you could safe the files on external medium and then you can install Windows using HDD recovery .

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>Can't bellieve this has happened and they are only 2 weeks old
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I have two problems with installing the recovery image:
1) I didn't get a copy of the recovery media with the system
2) The recovery media would install Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit which is what came with the laptop.
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As you can see in the sysinfo (I'm assuming Keany the respondent is the admin that approved my post and edited it, thus had access to the data which was removed) I have all the Toshiba software and drivers installed, identically to if this was the recovery image, I just have it on a different edition of Windows 7.
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I dont think that this needs to be fixed because I dont think its hardware related issue.
I think there is something wrong with the software on your notebook.
I mean everything worked perfectly until virus has damage the OS. Right?
You said this:
>I tried to install it with the recovery partition, which did not work. After it I tried to re-built it with the dvd I burned from the recovery partition with the same result.
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