Computer will not start up

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

i had the same thing happen to me, and re-installed the os, worked for a while, then started happening again and the last time it happened i was getting ready to do a show.. luckily i had a back-up..but anyway i was told the reason why it happened was that my hardrive went bad..i ended up replacing my hardrive ..by doing that i lost all my files..

If that is happening by all means take it to a repair shop. They have ways to get the files from the drive...at least the ones not sitting in a bad location on the drive.