Windows 10: Cannot reboot Windows 8 after crash. System recovery screen hangs so I cannot launch Safe...

Hello Community. Urgent help requested. My Windows 8 laptop crashed and I cannot reboot. Tried to launch safe mode via system recovery screen to get this I powered off 3 times to force automatic repair process. When the recovery screen appears after an hour or so. cursor is stuck but jumps around after several attempts. Eventually I manage to select advanced options but after several minutes a screen appears with disk erase options. Is there anything I can do? Is my hard drive damaged or too low on disk space? I need to recover some files so erasing disk is ot an option. I have tried twice

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one thing i think i could try is to bite the bit and install the latest drivers, i've been holding off on that.

but if there's anything else anyone can think of, or if someone has had the same problem as me. go for it and give me some suggestions.

in before buy the 4870. (already on my wish list)

 

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If I connect the external drive before starting the recovery process, that is, before clicking on "Shift" and "Restart", the system hangs when I get to the "System Image Recovery" step.