I can't get pass black screen of death even with recovery disk.

zeiriza12

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Earlier this month I had my HP Mini 311-1038NR gone into a boot loop. I have the System Recovery disk from hp and when I plug my dvd player to my laptop and hit launch repair, it's acting as if no disk player or disk is there and jump the screen saying use a repair disk and stuff. I can't even get into the command prompt. None of my safe modes work and the Disable automate at restart jump to a blue screen saying that the reason why the program won't start because of the missing of the %hs file. I click on the boot logs and it said "there's no boot logs" and when I do memory diagnostic, it still the boot and take me back to the window error. I believe this started when this happen:
Back in December, my computer did a mandatory/recommended update and the next then I know (I can't recall what the update was about and/or for) almost all my icons on my desktop was gone and then thats when my internet connection had problems. When I usually turn on the computer, my bluetooth button turn on and when I plug in the ethernet cord from the modem, I see all the networks around me. But due to that update, my bluetooth button won't turn on, and when I do turn on the bluetooth button, it disable the LAN/WAN/Bluetooth and I don't see any of my networks; none. So (I forgot the exact steps but) I decided to take my computer to a earlier time when I had all my icons and my internet connection was working right: 10/2013. So I clicked on it and let it run; until the computer ran out of energy. And when I came back from work and plug the power cord into my computer, turned on the computer, that's when I began to have the black screen of death. I didn't think that something 30 days or more can do so much damage.
I don't want to format my computer. What am I suppose to do?
 
You should never attempt to run a Windows installation, System Restore, or Factory Recovery on battery power.
The battery has most likely run flat before SR was completed, hence the black screen.

All I can suggest is you remove the hard drive and put it in a USB enclosure.
Rescue your data from it.
Put the drive back in your HP Mini
Perform HP System Recovery: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01867418#N128

You should always back up your data to another hard drive (for a laptop you just buy an external hard drive) then you would not need to worry about data loss. Apart from the usual problem of not being able to get in to Windows for some reason, you must remember that all hard drives fail sooner or later. Just think what happens to your precious data then - - you'll never be able to retrieve it without paying a small fortune to a data recovery specialist.

All for the sake of buying an external hard drive for backups.