Stuck in "Startup Repair" for more than 24 hours. How to get back to normal?

Accidentally disconnected my external hard drive (my passport western digital), without disconnecting properly.  After that I connected again, with the power still on it, it asked me password of my external hard drive.  Once I entered the password as the frozen screen.  I manually turned off the laptop (sony vaio, nearly 2 years, vista pre-installed), then power.   He asks me to choose the startup repair or start normally.  I chose startup repair, need me a green-bluish screen with a blue loading bar.  Constantly load bar (move to the right on several occasions).  I let this one day and a half!  Nothing.  Off by pressing the power button.  Also, I unplugged the external hard drive thinking that was the cause of the problem.  No devices are connected to the laptop now. Power turned under.  Yet once, a black screen with text asking me to choose at startup repair or start normally.  This time I try to boot normally.  The screen is white and black for a few minutes, then an arrow cursor appears for a couple minutes, and then he brings me right to the Startup Repair choose or start normally.

I also need to say that any action is veeeeeeeery slow.  It takes minutes just to get from one screen to the other.

I actually pulled that momentarily to a screen with a gray window that reads "system recovery options choose a tool" with the following choices: «Startup Repair, System Restore, restore full pc windows, command prompt, windows memory diagnostic tool»  That return me to normal or the other.  Turned power off and then on again and I tried pressing F8 at startup upward.  It gives a long list of options of safe mode, etc.  I am at a loss.

Every action I take, I find myself back to choose the Startup Repair tool or start normally.  Nothing works.  There is no way, that everything is just gone!  I didn't disconnect an external hard drive accidentally!

Please help if possible.  Tomorrow will be the day 3 of this madness maddening, ridiculous.

Well, it's a week or so later, here is what happened: the hard drive was dead along... Well well... According to the pc repair shop I ended up taking to.  That is why no troubleshooting worked.

So THANKS to those who have tried to help me, but it was ultimately useless in the end.

Computers are too sensitive if you ask me.  Certainly did not get my money's worth out of it.

Tags: Windows

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