Get the Reinstall CD it came with and put it in. Turn on the computer. While it is trying to boot hold down F12. You should get to a boot menu, select boot to CD. This should bring up the option to either repair or reinstall the OS. Try the repair first. If that doens't work I hope you made backups of anything important.
Thanks for your response. So this is what happened. I was away all afternoon and had just left the computer turned off while I was gone. Expecting to deal with it when I returned. So I hit the power button and it came right up, no problems. I do regular backups, believe me!! But it had been at least a week. So I immediately backed up. :) And continued with my work. So, after awhile I hit the power button by mistake and the computer shut down. When I turned it back on, same thing. Mind you, when it happened earlier in the day this is not what happened. I actually rebooted through the start button earlier. So this second time, I let the computer sit for 10 minutes and turned it on again. Came up with no problem. So, obviously something is wrong in the boot up. Think I should run the repair thing?
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