Get pictures off a broken laptop?

If it restarts and fires up the operating system then neither the hard drive or the operating system has crashed. Other people here and elsewhere have asked similar questions. A shop may be able to fix it affordably but tell them to retrieve the pictures before they reinstall the operating system because that will wipe them off the drive. If the laptop stays on for long enough, whether in one go or several, move or copy all of the picture folders to C. If the worse were to happen and the operating system did crash, you might be able to use the dos prompt to copy the pictures from the folders to an external drive. But my bet is that a shop will be able to fix it.

Don't wast your time with the above answer it won't work period.

You can do that job yourself in one hour for NOTHING. All you need to do is go to this website download this Free operating system, Make a systems boot up dvd disk or make a USB flash/jump drive boot up disk, Boot your computer up with the systems boot up log on to your crashed hard drive find your picture and other files and copy them to the usb jump drive, hey presto files saved,

Here is the website to go to download the free operating system make the boot up disk

http://zorin-os.com/

You can just remove the hard drive and put it into another laptop, save them onto a memory stick or something else then you are done