Take your HDD to a friends house & put it in their computer? I would offer to come to you and help but thats a bit far. I'd do it if you paid for gas on the bike ($10) I have a Ubuntu Live CD, Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD), and a Ubuntu Live USB... I used to be in IT... anyway, any of these tools will make boot your computer into a usable state so we could fix it. How old is the computer?