Last night we had thunderstorms roll through our area. We had intermitent power outages and during one of them, I instructed the computer to shut down. In the process of shutting down, we had a power failure that lasted the whole night. Upon getting to my computer this morning, it was going through the startup sequence, would get as far as the boot screen, then power down and go through the whole sequence again. During the next boot up, a screen appeared asking me to select the mode that I last started successfully in and I tried the normal mode. Then it would shut down. I tried booting up in safe mode (one of the options) and again it would re-start itself. I could not get to the windows screen at all. I can get into recovery mode but it says that it will erase all data on the HDD and I have files on there that I need to recover as well. Unfortunately, I did not back up the computer since I got it 2.5 years ago.
I opened the cover and started the computer. Cooling fans were running, inside was cleaned out. I did not hear any noise coming from the HDD so I think it is dead.
I have Windows XP. The computer is about 2.5 years old. Outside of this, I do not have any other information but will be able to get some. Can anyone help with this?
