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The files themselves are probably fine, unless you managed to demolish the master file table (which contains all the index values of the drive's files). If THAT'S the case, then you'll want to go to a professional data recovery company.

Boot into a livedisc/flashdrive and copy them to a different drive. Once your files are backed up, you can muck about with the HDD and windows installation trying to fix it with no worries.

You almost certainly damaged the boot sector of your hard drive when you jolted the machine. You should be able to recover the files pretty easily, although it also might be possible to simply fix it. I'm not an expert on that subject, though. Try live-booting into Linux with a CD or flash drive. Do you use the GRUB bootloader?

You gotta act fast once you turn on the computer. Every BIOS is different, but the ones I've had usually have some rudimentary tests they can perform on the CPU, RAM, and maybe hard drive to find problems. http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/accessbios.htm

I'm pretty sure it's the hard drive that was damaged, but you might want to run some BIOS utilities to make sure. If it is a hard drive problem, you're pretty much screwed.