>>You can try to boot using Knoppix (a CDROM based implementation of Linux) -- it has tools to access NTFS volumes.
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>Where do you get Knoppix and then what do you do?

http://www.knoppix.org/ is the link for it. You will have to download the image, burn to CDR. I have not used it to recover, but I have it as a way to get to a drive if I have to. You can try and replace the svchost.exe file from a good system.