Windows 8.1 currption? Black screen no startup programs

Manomann

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Hey everyone, just got back from a vacation and it seems my computer has forgotten who it is I've already tried a restore but the restore was curropted also my harddrive was making a beep noise for about 4 minutes then windows atempted a repair on the drive after it was done it was fine no more beeps but now my windows is seemingly fucked first my colorsceam was changed to the defaults and then windows 8 "hi we're installing your apps for you" came up at. Starting to get worried at this point computer stops the installing of apps and goes to a black desktop all of my programs boot up and think it's my first time using them or not come on at all. Firefox replaced with IE. And no programs can be opened with what I set them to be such a notepad etc. also it seems my font had been changed? A much thinner more pixilated one. Doing a scan on my drive now to check if it was damaged. Any ideas on what to do? I'm kinda lost here no internet at the moment so can't install anything on it. Any help will be great! Thanks for reading.
 

LoZFTW

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This may sound stupid, but have you tried turning it off and back on? I have a Dell Inspirion 3135 that does this from time to time, a restart or 2 fixes it.
 

Manomann

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My computer is built by myself and yes I have more then once. It seems my computer crashed during a hard drive repair and windows got slightly corrupt from it, I'll just upgrade to windows 10 once available.
 

LoZFTW

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Well Microsoft already has the Windows 10 Technical preview on their site, just put it on a usb.