IBook will not start up. Can anyone help please?

My iBook will not boot up anymore. It makes the usual startup sound, then goes to a gray screen with the Apple icon. Does anyone know what is wrong? I have all my homework on there. Most of it is backed up on my flash disk, but I have some other things not on my flash disk. When it did work, the computer would freeze every time I would launch Word to complete a homework assignment. The computer has just been acting goofy lately. Any suggestions on what I should do? Thanks.
Bwicki

I would put in your Mac OS X install disk, restart the iBook and hold down on the "c" key. This should make your computer startup from the install disk. This will open the Mac OS X installer first and may ask you to choose a language. Pick the language you want to use and continue. At the next screen, don't continue to install Mac OS X but choose to open the Disk Utility from the Installer menu. When the Disk Utility is open, select your hard drive on the left-hand side and then choose to "repair disk" from the button on the right-hand side. Is there anything to repair? Is the Disk Utility able to repair it? When you're done, you can simply quit the Disk Utility and then quit the Installer to restart back to your iBook's hard drive.
Hopefully the Disk Utility can repair any trouble it finds. If it can't, you may need to invest in a third party utility like . If it doesn't find anything that needs to be repaired, there may be something else going wrong... Let us know what you find out.
-Doug

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