Black screen with white blinking cursor

Help, my laptop when turned on only has a black screen with a white blinking cursor. Windows will not load. The laptop was in my car an got cold. Any suggestions ?
Appreciate any and all comments

You fried your hard drive, get a new one and reinstall windows

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