windows 8 won't boot

[yulec]

We have an Asus 200e notebook running windows 8, which was powered down normally, and now won't reboot. Just a black screen and arrow pointer.
Occasionally I can get a little box in the top left corner saying flight mode on.
Could this be what is causing it? Don't know why it is on flight mode - it's not normally set. How do I turn this off outside windows?
The only other thing I can get is certain screen controls e.g. brightness.

 

[dodger46]

Airplane mode
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-8-tip-use-airplane-mode
Shouldn't prevent you using Windows.
If you have access to another PC running W8, create a Windows Recovery Drive to enable you to get to the trouble shooting menu.
At Start Screen, type 'Recovery' and from Settings choose Create a Recovery Drive. You'll need a CD or USB Flash -, it requires about 250Mb...
Perhaps 'Refresh your PC' will fix your problem, once you've booted from the repair media....

 

[yulec]

Airplane mode
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-8-tip-use-airplane-mode
Shouldn't prevent you using Windows.
If you have access to another PC running W8, create a Windows Recovery Drive to enable you to get to the trouble shooting menu.
At Start Screen, type 'Recovery' and from Settings choose Create a Recovery Drive. You'll need a CD or USB Flash -, it requires about 250Mb...
Perhaps 'Refresh your PC' will fix your problem, once you've booted from the repair media....

 

[yulec]

Thanks for coming back to me.
It restarted somehow. I had tried holding down the power button which caused it to turn on briefly, then turn off again. the next time I tried to turn it on, it powered up normally (albeit slightly slowly). I'm not advocating this as a solution, but in this instance it sparked into life after 20 or so fruitless efforts.
I turned off flight mode (definitely wasn't set when last used), and then tried sleep, and then restart. Ok so far.
In the meantime I went to create a recovery disc, but it was asking for a USB drive with at least 16GB available space. (Larger than any I currently have to hand). I use portable hard drives for back ups, but want to use a clean drive for the recovery disk. Priority tomorrow. Shouldn't have put it off before!

 

[dodger46]

Thanks for coming back to me.
It restarted somehow. I had tried holding down the power button which caused it to turn on briefly, then turn off again. the next time I tried to turn it on, it powered up normally (albeit slightly slowly). I'm not advocating this as a solution, but in this instance it sparked into life after 20 or so fruitless efforts.
I turned off flight mode (definitely wasn't set when last used), and then tried sleep, and then restart. Ok so far.
In the meantime I went to create a recovery disc, but it was asking for a USB drive with at least 16GB available space. (Larger than any I currently have to hand). I use portable hard drives for back ups, but want to use a clean drive for the recovery disk. Priority tomorrow. Shouldn't have put it off before!

Choose a Recovery Drive as opposed to a Disk from Settings, don't include the Recovery partition, then it only requires 250Mb and a CD will suffice... It will at least get you into Safe Mode or whatever to recover from a major problem...

Choose