Can you help me fix my laptop?

Help, please! My laptop (Toshiba equium) isn’t working and I have no idea why. It has so much of my work on it and im desparate to get it up and running again, if any one can help I would be so so grateful.

It comes up with this on start up –
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Windows Error Recovery
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause.

If windows files have been damaged or configured incorrectly, Startup repair can help
diagnose and fix the problem. If power was interrupted during startup, choose start
windows normally.
(use the arrow keys to highlight your choice.)

Launch startup repair (recommended)
Start windows normally
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If I choose ‘Launch startup repair’ then it comes up
‘windows is loading files…’
then a loading screen then a window comes up saying –
‘startup repair is checking your system for problems…’
after just a couple of seconds this disappears and then a window that says
‘windows cannot repair this computer automatically’ comes up with theses options –
‘view diagnostic repair details’
‘view advanced options for system recovery and support’
‘finish’
And ‘cancel’
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If I choose ‘Start windows normally’ then a load screen appears for a few seconds before it simple restarts and goes back to the ‘Windows error recovery’ screen.

Please help.
The diagnositic repair retails are miles long, to long to type out.

I do not want to lose my information, I have important work on my laptop – please help.

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I have a Toshiba laptop and my CD/DVD drive suddently stopped being recognized by the computer. I was working with some DVD movie maker software to transfer old movies to DVD’s and now it’s like I don’t even have DVD drive. It worked a couple of days ago. Ran a diagnostic and it failed. Is there something I can do?
Pinnacle is the manufacturer of the software for the movie maker and they say that this is a common problem and says to change a particular item in the registry. I am very afraid to change anything in registry.

I had Windows Vista Home Basic (My computer is a Dell) and I was going to reformat because of a bad virus. My bro gave me Vista Home Premium so i used that and started the formatting process. When it finished, i played a game of solitaire and a notice came up saying that hardware acceleration is off (never happened before). When the game opened, the frame rate becomes very low. Im assuming that my graphics card isn’t working properly. I ran DirectX Diagnostics and it didnt detect my graphics card.
I ran Everest and it says that the graphics card is a Standard VGA (if memory serves from 30mins ago).

I bought this computer off ebay a while ago and the seller gave me the following Installation CDs:

o Cyberlink PowerDVD
o Dell Photo All-in-One Printer
o Dell Dimension Computer Software
o Windows Vista Home Basic 32bit
o Dell LCD Flat Panel Monitor
o Norton Anitvirus

I installed them all except the antivirus.

When I opened up my computer (risky for a noob like me :D), I saw three cards (i assumed one was a graphics CARD). I unclipped them and one says Dell Memory and the others have no name. Games were working for me earlier before i uprgraded.

How do i find the graphics card so i can update it?
Is there any other ways to fix this?

Help please ~ ty