Last night our harddrive went nuts. We woke to a screen saying a windows file was corrupt or missing to reinstall it. CDs are packed right now, so went to system recovery. Have gone through all of the stps and it says it is ready to go, then hangs-up forever at the final phase where it is a blcak screen wt\ith the window logo and the little green time counter thingy. It says Please Wait and nothing happens, hasn't for over an hour.

Any simplse/stupid thing I can do to kick start it? Or does that mean it has really crashed and has to go to hospital?

Thanks much,

katdumb