I have a 5 year old Inspiron 8000 running XP Pro, when I turned it on yesterday it went to the blue screen that suggests a disk check (which it has done frequently lately) and first I pressed a key to skip the disk check and nothing happened.  I then restarted it and when it got to the screen it began to run the disk check, but then stayed at 0 percent for over 40 minutes and then slowly crept up to 4 percent.  At 4 percent it then went back to 0 percent!  I tried this a number of times and even let it continue to start up overnight and nothing changed. 

 

I did try to start it up under safe mode and some numbers ran down the screen, and then paused for a long time.  Eventually I left and when I came back it was back at the blue disk check screen.  So currently I am unable to start my computer.

 

Any information you could provide would be appreciated and honestly I just want to have the computer run for another month or so until I upgrade and buy a new one.  Thanks a lot for your help.