After password my laptop just keeps buffering with my name on screen tried everything from battery

[Ged27]

Hi when I try to sing in to my laptop hp my name appears and it just buffering, tried battery out pressing power button and hold it down, help please 

[itsmyname]

@Ged27 -- shutdown your computer, by holding-down the ON/OFF button, until it powers-off.

Power-on your computer, and immediately start tapping the ESC key, until you see a start-up menu.

Is the "HP Hardware Diagnostic" an option? If so, choose that option.

Then, choose to run the "Short DST" --> (short meaning a minute or two, DST ==> Disk-drive Status Test).

If it "fails", then your disk-drive is failing, and needs to be replaced.