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After two days of trying to check for bad sectors, I gave up to go ahead and try the CD extended scan. I'm fixing to cry because I've changed the the setting to boot from CD because I could not boot it with F12. I cannot get past the starting windows screen, it's taking forever. I desperately powered off and started again and I still either get a black screen with a mouse pointer after starting windows or just a starting windows screen. It's asking me to do a recommended start up repair , but I know that would take 2 years. My HDD light stays lit and never blinks. I'm scared to keep powering off by the power button. In the past whenever start up repair was my only option, it would never fix itself. That's why I had to reset to original settings and about 4 times, and the 4th led me to this mess I'm in now...frustrated.