Power Surged[Please Help]

Hello, I apologize if this is in the wrong section but I couldnt find any real help section. My friends computer recently got hit by a storm and seemed to have gotten surged. When he turns it on it will load and after he puts his password in it gives him 1 of 2 errors and will restart and do this over and over. I got him into the automatic recovery of Windows 8 but he couldnt system restore or automatic recover. We could try the reformat option it gives but I dont know if thats the issue. I will be monitoring the thread every minute if anyone can post info on how he can possibly fix this or any questions related I will answer them instantly. Thanks