Stuck at blue Login screen

 Hello. I am experiencing an issue with my laptop, a G61 421SO model, and the issue is showed in a Youtube video. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7FIDt9SonQ The issue occured after I let my cousin played The Sims 4. She said that after she closed Sims 4, a window appeared and she clicked it away, and shut down the laptop. The next day I started it, and it remained stuck at the screen which is showed in the video. She unfortunately does not remember what the pop up window showed.  I tried hard resetting, letting the laptop rest for 24 hours, resetting BIOS settings and doing tests (which of all were successful and not showing any errors) and leaving it turned on for 1h+ in attempt to let it load. I have a theory that either the harddrive is messing up or the OS is somehow failing to load properly. As I am unable to access the harddrive and the data in it, how can this issue be fixed without losing any important, meaningful data; e.g Pictures?  Thank you! 

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