text: Sounds like your hard drive. See if you can press F8 as soon as it restarts and boot in safe mode. If you can get to safe mode, run a virus scan, and clean up any adware you have. Once you have completed that see if it will boot up normally. If it won't I recommend buying a new hard drive and slaving your current one in order to see if you can retrieve any information.\nYou can use Zero Assumption to recover any files it finds during a scan. Its free.\nhttp://www.z-a-recovery.com/