so to preface my computer is ten years old---i'm not too worried about keeping it safe at this point, probably going to get another one some way or another after i deal with this. i really just care about the files on the computer because it'd be a pain in the ass to get them back
so my computer froze one night (as it does intermittently, it's just old) and i had to cold boot it. didn't turn it back on afterwards because it was late af and i really wanted some rest. the next morning i left for pennsylvania for five days
when i came back, my computer (windows 7) was getting stuck at "starting windows." so i tried system repair, and that froze after about 30 seconds. so naturally i tried safe mode, it lasted 10 seconds before it (multiple times) got stuck at classpnp.sys
i'm trying to fix it of course, should i get a system repair disk, restore to factory default settings, something like that? i'd prefer not to deal with ubuntu and linux bullstuff but is there anything i can do to save the files or should i just be throwing it off a building
