About a week before Christmas there was a power cut in my area. The PC was running fine at the time. A few hours later when power resumed I powered up my PC and it proceeded to stick on the "Starting Windows" screen.

I tried startup repair. It would just run and run and run with no progress. I've tried booting in safe mode etc and nothing. I done some searching and I get the impression that my drive is screwed.

Any help would be appreciated, especially on how to proceed of the drive does need replacing.