Sorry for hijacking your thread, but I'm having a similar problem. There was a power outage/surge the other day and now my computer will only start up to the black screen with the blue bar running across and then won't go any further.
I can get into safe mode, and when I try and do a system restore, it goes through the process, but when I try and turn it on again, it says it wasn't able to do the system restore.
My computer has been a bit more loud lately and occasionally when I started it, Windows had to check the hard drives but always found nothing wrong with it.
Anyone know what is wrong and what I should do? Thanks so much.