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Thanks Maynardvdm I switched it back on, and after about an hour it started to boot (!) and announced a disk boot failure, coupled with a request to load up the system repair disk. After doing this it went through various procedures, eventually resulting in a working machine. I think I got off light - thanks for your time and interest.

Guys Don't know if this is the right place to post this: I seem to be in serious trouble. My computer, running Win 7 Home Premium, suddenly started going crazy - cursor travelling across the page of it's own accord, and not responding to mouse actions, - so I closed it down by depressing the start button until it switched off. Upon pressing the start button again, the machine seems to start going through the motions, flashes up the Intel logo on the screen but then hangs there and I can't do anything! Does anyone have any ideas, because at present, I'm in some really deep stuff!