Help please! blue screen spinning wheel

Hi,
I am clueless when it comes to things like this I'm afraid so any help would be gratefully received!! This is the first time this has happened to my macbook so in a bit of a panic! Basically was trying to install a new scanner and when trying to download driver from epson site it said to install all updates which I did. Then realised it was taking forever so shut the laptop down at power button as there was no other option of stopping it. Anyway on start-up its just the blue screen with logo and spinning wheel and has been like this for 2 hrs ish despite turning on and off several times. Read through discussion topics and followed instructions for safe boot and resetting pram but no luck just retruns to spinning wheel etc Any help/advice would be great, thank you!!

That will be just fine, the other method would have repaired the HD if there were issues with it from corrupted download. But you should be good to go after it finishes, your data should still be there, but make sure to run software up date...that could take a while.
I'm sorry I didn't read your post carefully, it will install the version of OS on the disk, hence my recommendatio to run software up date.

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