I can't get Mountain Lion to work

Hi,
My computer is update for mountain lion but I can't get the thing working. It just breaks down when it restarts. IT runs for a few mintes and then stops running.
I've been in disk utility and that tells me to repair my disk, so I tried to repair the disk but when it is repairing the volume it says it will only take 2 minutes but after about an hour I stop it because it is still telling me it will only take 2 minutes.
Can anybody help me please?
Thank you,
jeannie

Do you mean I should just click on repair disk again?
Only if it had completed the task and reported some errors. It sounds like it's well and truly stuck.
I've seen some reports where Mountain Lion seems to have corrupted drives at some point during the download or installation. I know this to be fact because it happened to me . I verified my drive before updating, downloaded ML and started the install and immediately got a message saying there was a problem with the drive. Disk Utility couldn't repair it and nor could Disk Warrior.
The fix was to do a complete erase and re-install from back-up and then apply the ML installation again. No problems since then.
Have you got reliable up-to-date backup as it may be you got to go down the same path I did.

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