I know this isn't exactly hardware related, but it seemed like the most appropiate forum considing the two options.
Anyways, I noticed my Acer aspire 5315 (xp sp2) crawling while doing pretty much anything, so I reboot the system, only to have it not boot windows, it will boot up to the start up screen saying "ACER press f2 for bios" etc. but after that, when it usually boots windows,the screen just goes black, like i'm about to see the windows booting animation, but nothing comes up, just a black screen with no text or anything. I try to put in my windows xp cd, it says "press any button to read from disk" so I do, but it just goes to black, and I see nothing.
Also, when I had rebooted the system earlier, There was a bubble in the bottom right corner saying something along the lines of "a windows system file is currupt" the files was "cursor" something, the bubble went away just as I was reading it.
Anyone know whats going on? I'm assuming I managed to get a virus (and If I did, I wasted money on AVG pro, because that was running constantly).
The HDD is Hitachi hts5416805(or's')9sa00
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