System recovery options loop

This morning my wife's Satellite 100 running Windows Vista got itself into a System Recovery loop with absolutely no discernible way of getting out of it. So I'm turning to you guys to see if any one has had the same problem.
First the system shut down (battery problem). She restarted it and on loading Vista got a message box with the heading "System Recovery Options", just an OK button and the message "This program cannot be loaded click OK to restart" or something to that effect. Doing anything switches the machine off.
I tried F8 on start up and all the options in the recovery menu (including the Repair System tools) restart Vista and arrive at the same message.
I've searched Toshiba's support site and found nothing.
I have a recovery disk but that would reformat the hard disk and she has lots of stuff not backed up.
I suspect that it is going into Recovery Mode and finding a disk error on the "hidden partition". So I just want to stop it doing that so that I can start the machine and backup the files. Any ideas?

Hi buddy,
Can you start Windows in safe mode?
I think in worst case its necessary to reinstall Windows if it doesnt start anymore. I mean there is nothing what you can do
Im wondering that you didnt make a backup of these important files Anyway, you can backup them if you put the HDD in an external HDD case. Then you can connect it to another computer and make a backup before reinstalling Windows.

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Hi @Jaytee2 ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have read about your HP Notebook and getting a blank or black screen on startup. Try performing a hard reset.
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I have tried numerous times and can't get the system recovery option by intermittently hitting the *f8 key during startup* like it says in the manual, it just goes straight into Windows. I just installed the latest BIOS but that didn't help either. I have no disks for recovery but I would like to get the f8 issue solved anyway. Everything else works perfectly. Thanks.

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