Hiya, tried turning on the laptop this morning and it was stuck in a loading loop for ages. Looking at the system info 'Born Date' is only 14th Nov 2013 - so just 3 days past standard warranty, so not best pleased.
Anyway, after running a system test the results came back with a Hard Drive Short DST error code: M0E6L8-6RW7A1-MFPWWK-60QA03
The more I look into this it's looking like the only answer I have is to aqquire a Windows 8 boot image/file and do a full restore to get any joy.
Before I take the leap and lose all my work, any help would be much appreciated.