My Satellite 1800-911 won't reboot

Hi
I was recently downloading an update to Realplayer when it crashed.
On startup the HDD light flickers....as its trying to be accessed....but the OS (Windows XP Pro) is not booting up.
All I get is the Toshiba Welcome message..in red text....the nothing...blank screen.
Even If I try to boot into Safe Mode or any other via the Windows Advanced Option screen I get nothing.
I can get to the cmd propmt and I have searched and seen that my data and documents are all still there in the My documents folder, as well as the 'System' and 'System32' files but i cannot see the i386 folder...
I am trying the commands like 'chkdsk' but they are not being recognised as I'm getting the message 'Bad command or file name'
Would a BIOS update help me...
Any other ideas.....will be greatly appreciated...
Thanks
Steve37

Hmmm . Really stupid situation. As far as I know BIOS update has nothing to do with this problem and it will not help at all. I really do not know what you can try.
Before you do anything you should remove HDD and connect it on other PC as external one and back up all your important data. If you have some time please check this page
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm#How%20To%20Determine%20If%20XP%20was %20Activated
following some tips there you can try to repair preinstalled OS. If nothing helps I am afraid you must install OS again.

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