Recover files from a non-booting Windows PC
boot into System Rescue CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
To mount an NTFS drive as read-only:
mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
To mount NTFS as writeable:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows