Black Screen with a Blinking Cursor in Left Corner....

Hello,
I have an HP Pavilion Elite HPE Desktop.  We have been having issues over the past weeks of our Computer Freezing or Shutting Off while in the middle of using it.
Today it shut off and when it came back on, it stopped at a Black Screen with a Blinking Cursor in the top left hand corner.
We tried leaving it on to see if it would load up, after approximately 15 minutes still nothing!  Manually shut it down, kept off for like 30 minutes to an hour, turned back on and the same thing happened again.
Anyone have any Suggestions as to what is wrong with our Desktop???  Please help.
Thank you.

Hi,
OK.  
If you are getting a disk read\write error then it would seem more likely  to be a hard disk failing.
Post the results that you get on the hard disk test.  If your disk is failing then trying to restore or recover simply won't work. A hard disk replacement will be required.
You may be able to get  your data off of the drive by putting it in an external enclosure and connecting it to another Windows PC. 
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