REAL REAL PC PROBLEMS. THIS IS NO JOKE. ONLY SERIOUS REPLIES

[Nicetoseeyoutoseeyounice]

I have been reading on this all night. I have now tried Alt + F10 and have a different screen which is giving me the options to.
RESTORE TO FACTORY DEFAULT
RESTORE FROM CD/DVD
As I didnt go a restore Cd myself (when the pc was working) I unfortunately do not have one.
So, I click restore to default but this still asks for the Cd.
My model is Acer Aspire 5630 series.
How can I get this recovery CD. I think its worth a try.
Motherly instinct tells me the Hard Drive does not need replacing.

 

[NicG2]

How old is it, could it be the internal battery? I had an old work laptop that did something similar and they wrote it off. I somehow worked out that when running the systems tests and turned it off and on again (at the mains) it would load up, manged to do this a few times to back up files and then it stopped allowing me to do it.

Took it to a shop they replaced the battery and it has been fine since.

 

[Goldberg]

Motherly instinct tells me the Hard Drive does not need replacing.

There are three ways in which the drive can cause this problem - one is the media, one is the file system, the the third is a corruption. As you would expect, reverting to a previous Restore Point doesn't address most problems.

You need to eliminate the media from the list of possibilities, because if the drive is faulty then it's pointless doing any other fault-finding. A functional demo of something that will scan the drive is here.