text: my computer wont start up, what should i do? it restarts while starting up, and i cant access it from my other one. sounds like your hard drive. see if you can press f8 as soon as it restarts and boot in safe mode. if you can get to safe mode, run a virus scan, and clean up any adware you have. once you have completed that see if it will boot up normally. if it won't i recommend buying a new hard drive and slaving your current one in order to see if you can retrieve any information. you can use zero assumption to recover any files it finds during a scan. its free. http://www.z-a-recovery.com/