You now know it is getting through POST and it appears you have a bad disk. However, the disk problem may be a side effect of some other problem. If Windows can't complete its startup, it can leave the disk in a corrupted state. The next time Windows starts, it sees that the disk wasn't shut down clean and runs chkdsk to clean it up. Of course if it can't complete chkdsk because the drive is trashed or because of some other problem, that's as far as you can go.
The next step is to see if it will boot off some other media. There are a couple of different ways to do this. You can add a SATA CD/DVD burner, which will run about $40 and is a handy thing to have, or you can make a bootable USB thumb drive.
I can understand why at this point you would want to hand it over to somebody else, but I'm going to tell what my next steps would be in case you're interested. Assuming I can get it to boot off a Linux CD or USB thumbdrive, I would mount the bad hard drive and try to copy off any files I want to save. Then try to repair or reinstall the OS on the hard drive. If that fails, then a new drive and fresh installation is in order.
If the system won't boot from CD or USB, then there's some hardware problem besides the hard drive. But my guess is it will boot from a different media device just fine.
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