If all the conventional means fail, I can send you a bootable usb stick loaded with a live Linux distribution. Linux will mount your windows files if it can. If you have a second usb stick of adequate capacity, you can save the important stuff to that. I have done this several times. If the hard drive is mountable irrespective of windows OS inability to boot it Linux will mount the drive. This is a last resort failing other methods, but it has worked well for me.
Rowland.
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