Hi fradu,
I am not sure if you said your file system is NTFS or FAT32
If it is NTFS then have a look at for NTFSDOS, it will allow you to boot up with a DOS disk and then mount an NTFS disk - at least that way you can recover personal documents before trying some extremes.
http://www.sysinternals.com/FileAndDiskUtilities.html
Hope it goes well,
Carlep