I had already set it up to do chkdsk when it rebooted and it did find errors it corrected. Do you still think its on its way out?? If so would a replacement currently at c£50 cure any problems or could there be a bit more going on??
Thanks for all the advice chaps but I managed to fix the Samsung eventually but will probably still look at a new laptop.
Thought you might like to know the fix which might be helpful to you sometime. My laptop froze just after boot up and even a Win7 disc was unable to boot in. I found a...