failure of the system restore

I have a dell Windows xp computer.  everything on it was working fine and the a few days ago the internet Explorer was working really slow but everything else on the computer was working fine.  so I did system restore to when it was working fine.  My computer has restarted and then BAM it nothing at all, but keep trying to reboot over and over again.  I don't like not really on the computer I was due for a new still, but I have pictures there that I want to come back and I was wondering if there was anyway at least to recover the photos.  Oh and I tried to start safe mode and all the options I got on the screen but the same thing. So if someone can tell me a way to recover these pictures, I would be very grateful.

Hello

The best way to recover the photos is to take out the hard drive and attach it to another PC as a slave drive, or second. Locate the drive connected, then copy your photos. The photos are usually found under X: \Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\My Pictures (where X is the drive letter of the hard drive attached andusername is your user profile.)

Alternatively, you can try to make your PC work again trying to recover your registry database. You can read this document to do this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

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