Satellite L300-19F doesn't boot up - Windows failed to start

My notebook doesn't start up, "Windows failed to start. To fix the problem: restart with recovery CD".
I may do this, but first I do want to try to save data (and pics) from hard disk.
Is it possible, for example, to go to DOS during start up with recovery CD, and copy data to USB-stick?
By the way, all my data is on E:\ partition. Will this be overwritten when installing from recovery?
Please advise. Regards.

> Is it possible, for example, to go to DOS during start up with recovery CD, and copy data to USB-stick?
No, this is not possible!
If you would boot up using recovery disk then the recover procedure would be started and the whole HDD would be formatted!
You can try to boot using an WinPE
http://www.livecd.com/
This will allows you to boot up the unit and to get access to the data on the HDD
You could also built own Windows live CD
Check this:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-your-own-custom-windows-live-cd/

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