Windows won't start up in A505-S6980 laptop after a freeze-up

My computer frooze up recently when I was installing an AVG upgrade and I had to manually shut it down. Now windows7 will not start up. The start up repair just keeps running and running and I did a system restore that did not help. It just took me back to the startup repair again. I can get to the system recovery options menu by pressing and holding F8. What should I try next, and if need be can someone tell me where I can find directions to restore to the original factory settings. I did make the back up dics when I originally got the computer about a year ago.
Thanks for your help.
Brayton
Brayton

Oops. Must have my messages mixed.
Not a good situation. But so long as we can reach the recovery environment, it can't hurt to try some other commands at the command prompt.
chkdsk /r <---this will probably take a long time
bootrec /FixBoot <----fixes the first sector of the System partition
Otherwise, we're pretty much out of luck. Do you have important files not backed up?
-Jerry

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no sign of trying to start up in Task Manager.It
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Security 2007. Windows installaton is clean and
functioning properly, with no other problems. Recent
virus scan and spyware scans clean. Also tried using
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Quicktime exhibits unusual behavior in that Quicktime
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