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Black screen of death help me!!!

I leave my computer on 24/7 but we had a black out today. Just got home and it won't start. Goes through the usual start up but before windows start the screen just goes black but you can see the mouse cursor.

It wants to do a disk scan, I press ok, same thing happens above.

Then I tried to boot in safe mode which works fine and then restarted computer in normal mode same problem as above but it says cannot open volume for direct access when I try to run a disk scan on start up.

If I try to start comp without running disk check same problem as the start.

My question is...help me please!!!

Second question...what can I do in safe mode to try and find and fix this problem. This poor old clunker has had a hard life!!!

Hiya AB, sounds like you have lost startup files...........The fix: If its a laptop, remove hard-drive, keep hard-drive, then bash-burn-bury laptop. buy a new one and externally connect HDD to gain access to files.
If you have a newish desktop computer: remove hard-drive, and install a new HDD, format and load windows. Once again externally access your old HDD via cable and gain access to your old files.

If its an old desktop computer: bash-burn-bury