Yeah I think that what I'm going to do.

Thanks for your help, everyone.

Well the SeaTools test hasn't moved in the 9 hours since I started it. Just states "Started Long Test 5/14/2016 23:06:37"

Should I take this to mean I need a new hard drive?

How long should I expect the formatting to take? It's been stuck on 0 pretty much since you posted your reply

Well it took a long time to get to cmd and just as long try and upload a picture from my phone. You know when its just been one of those days?

Anyway, I've typed out the result below.

DISKPART...

Yes I've just noticed that myself. How do I find the correct disk? I would have thought the HDD would be C:

Hello Superfly,

Thanks for your response. She will be supervised next time I assure you! ;)

Ok so I've run chkdsk which returned the following:

X:\Sources>chkdsk C:/f/r
The type of the file...

Hello all,

Currently at my wits end with my Acer Aspire E1-570 so I'm turning to you for help! The problem begin with a plain black screen and only a cursor visible. My girlfriend was using the...