Windows 8 stuck on spinning circle

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Hi. I just upgraded my Asus G75VW from Windows 7, to Windows 8. After installing it, I noticed my laptop was acting a bit slow, but I just brushed it off thinking the new OS needed to be initialize and whatnot. This morning, however, I booted up my laptop and I could barely get it to work. It was freezing and lagging and just being extremely slow. So I force shut it off (held the power button down for 5 seconds). Now whenever I turn on my computer, I see the Asus logo, and then the screen goes black. I did some research and saw some people say it could be the magnetic sensor, or just a general hardware problem. I plugged it into a monitor and I could a display. But my problem didn't stop there. Not I get stuck on the windows spinning circle that shows whenever you boot it up. It's been stuck like this for hours and nothing's happening. And I can't start it into safe mode because of Windows 8's stupid catch-22 safe mode thing. Is there anything I can do? I have no idea what the problem is. Thank you for all your help!

--Brandon
 
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First thing I'd try is booting from the windows 8 disc and selecting the repair option. Don't reinstall and wipe out the old files just yet, just try to see if you can get to a repair screen and let windows reinstall the basic os and drivers. If that works great. At that point I'd back up all my files and then do a clean install. If it doesn't work, you might be able to get in there using third party software or you might have to just do a clean install. Hopefully you have system and file backups or at least file backups.
First thing I'd try is booting from the windows 8 disc and selecting the repair option. Don't reinstall and wipe out the old files just yet, just try to see if you can get to a repair screen and let windows reinstall the basic os and drivers. If that works great. At that point I'd back up all my files and then do a clean install. If it doesn't work, you might be able to get in there using third party software or you might have to just do a clean install. Hopefully you have system and file backups or at least file backups.
 
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