ttry putting the windows disk in them hitting f12 and start from disc

Phoram wrote Ok, I hit F12, then hit HDD (something like that) and now I'm at a screen that says Windows failed to start. Blablabla and 2 options. 1. Launch Startup Repair (Didn't work before)
2. Start normally
Which one?

Try startup repair just in case and then try start normally.

Hit start normal.

Things that are happening:
1. Starting Windows (Not displaying windows logo as normal)
2. Just rebooted by itself, will try startup repair now.
3. There was just a flashing hyphen up at the top left corner for about 30-60 seconds, now it's just a black screen.
4. Just rebooted AGAIN.
5. Selected startup repair again, and now there is "Windows is loading files..." with a progress bar under it.

Phoram wrote Hit start normal.

Things that are happening:
1. Starting Windows (Not displaying windows logo as normal)
2. Just rebooted by itself, will try startup repair now.

Yeah, so far this sound like some sort of HDD failure.

Phoram wrote Hit start normal.

Things that are happening:
1. Starting Windows (Not displaying windows logo as normal)
2. Just rebooted by itself, will try startup repair now.
3. There was just a flashing hyphen up at the top left corner for about 30-60 seconds, now it's just a black screen.
4. Just rebooted AGAIN.

Looks like you are going to need to reinstall the OS. Something went wrong with the HDD.

The startup repair is about 50% done.

Phoram wrote The startup repair is about 50% done.

Oh it's working now?

1yoyo105 wrote

Phoram wrote The startup repair is about 50% done.

Oh it's working now?

Just finished, black screen so far. Should I just manually reboot and see if F8 will work?

Phoram wrote

1yoyo105 wrote

Phoram wrote The startup repair is about 50% done.

Oh it's working now?

Just finished, black screen so far. Should I just manually reboot and see if F8 will work?

Try it. The repair MIGHT have fixed it.

hard drive probably died.