Help!? my HP pavilion appears to have died

hi, i'm hoping some good soul can point me in the right direction on this one...

there's then a counter counting down from 30 at where it restarts itself.

if i choose to restart it the windows xp start up windows screen comes up but it flashes off before loading, a blue screen with white text flashes up but goes too quickly to read what it says, it then restarts with the HP screen and goes back to the window above. if i try to start in safe mode (or any of the other options) a screen of text scrolls down the screen before flashing blue and going back to HP start up window.

i hadn't been downloading anything or installed anything new. i have symantec anti-virus corporate edition and haven't been having any problems. all i had done the previous night was instead of shutting down, i had closed it and let it hibernate for a couple of hours. when i came back on it was very slow, a message did pop up saying something corrupted and that i should run dskchk utility (i thought this might have been spyware) so i shut it down and thought no more about it. next time i turned it on the above happened.

if i hold down F8 it opens on the "windows advanced options menu" screen but again anything i choose goes through the same motions as mentioned above.

it's a HP pavillion DV 2000. does anyone know what i can do? i thought it came with a windows cd (that i didnt need to get it going) but cant find one so it may not have.

 

Do you have you OS disk? Could try booting off that?

 

Maybe file system is corrupted, so you need to reinstall windows? Or mbr corrupted? Could be a few things.

 

ok so if i need to reinstall windows, i dont think a disk came with my laptop, i certainly didnt need one to get going, maybe i could get one from HP...