Having computer issues. |:

So I was just doing pretty normal stuff, browsing the internet and listening to music. Nothing out of the ordinary, I hadn't done anything weird or installed anything in the past few days. I'm not sure what caused it but all of a sudden my computer turned off. I figured that I probably just accientally hit the power button (it's located in a weird place and I tend to rest my leg on top of the computer, dangerously close to the power button). So I turned it back on.

It got past the HP screen, then just went to a black screen with a blinking cursor (the kind that asks you type something in) in the top left. I can't get past it.

My hard drive is partitioned too and I have it ask if I'd like to boot into Ubuntu or Windows, and I haven't even gotten to that.

I do have a bootable version of Linux burned on a CD that I got into, and I can access all of my files and everything, so worst comes to worst I just back everything up to another computer and just reinstall my operating systems, but that'd take some time and thought I'd check if anyone had has this problem or has any solutions.

I have an HP p6510f, it's no more than 5 months old, I do pretty regular virus scans. Running Windows 7.

 

Er well... if you can boot from a disk but not your hard drive I'm guessing either your boot settings aren't configured right or something with the OS itself got screwed up. Double check your boot priories or try using a repair disk for win 7.

 

Either your boot priorities got messed up or one of your boot files broke. First, try getting into your BIOS and change your boot priorities around to see if that does anything.
If it doesn't, boot a repair disk or installation disk, open the command line, and type (in the following order)
Bootrec.exe
/FixBoot

 

I don't think it's a software problem but a hardware issue. But still, you should first check the the boot sectors of the disk as stated above.
If the problem isnt there then check inside the pc, to see if there's any cable not properly connected. Unlpug them and plug them again (like the hard drive cable, and if you know how, graphics card and sound card.) and also it's worth doing the same for all other connected devices. You could also remove your usb devices and before you plug them again see if it can boot, if not then plug them again.
There's also another thing you could try, resetting the CMOS, which can be done with a cmos jumper reset thingy or just removing and reinserting the cmos battery). It will reset all bios settings so it's not something I recommend for now.

 

This fixed it, though I had to use /fixmbr instead of /fixboot.
Thanks all though. ;D