Lenovo Laptop stuck on blank screen before Windows 8.1 boots up.

I have a Lenovo G585 laptop running on Windows 8.1, which I've had for at most 7 years now.

Randomly after a standard restart, it went through the process of scanning and repairing my C: Drive on the splash screen. I decided to just let it run because it hasn’t happened before and didn't want to mess anything up by disabling it.

What happened next was what I assumed to be the process having finished (I walked away from the laptop for a while cause the process was very slow). Next thing I know, it's stuck on the blank screen that shows up after the splash screen fades out.

This screen shows up prior to Windows 8.1 booting up and showing the lock screen, which usually let's me click my mouse or press any key to let me enter my PIN. The major indicator that this happens is a purple “Please Wait…” screen that sometimes shows up for a bit prior to the lock screen loading up. It doesn't always happen and sometimes the lock screen just loads after a while. But it doesn't even do that after the splash screen fades out.

No matter how many times I turned it off and on again, waited for extended periods to boot or keep the laptop off overnight, nothing worked. I tried the power drain method (at multiple lengths of holding the power button), the method of holding F8 and the Shift key while it was turning on, the Enter and F12 method, nothing. It doesn't help that I see conflicting information on some of these solutions that it becomes hard to know if anything works.

I'm at my wits end here and I'd rather not go through the effort of exposing my laptop's inner workings to either clean it or check if there's a hard drive issue, as I don't know how that works. Unscrewing the base of my laptop and doing all that is a last resort.

And before anyone says anything, there's no NOVO button on this laptop. I checked all over, so there's no BIOS to check. It might just be it's an old laptop and it's on its last legs given how long I've had it but I wanna be certain before making that assumption.

If anyone had even remotely a similar problem to mine, please tell me if there's any other solutions I haven't tried already. Thank you for your time.