Why did my computer refuse to turn then suddenly decide to turn on and work?

Why did my computer refuse to turn then suddenly decide to turn on and work?

So I moved my computer wiped the outside with cloth and tried to start it again, but it said disk error, tried again and it says Missing Operating system, try a couple of more time, including repluging in the hard drive, still nothing. Remembering what my IT said ages ago, about how he hit the computer on the side and it started working I hit it on the side and retry, and surprisingly it works (though it took a very long time to get past the starting windows, with the glowing logo screen)

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"To me, this sounds like the wiping was just bad timing and your hard drive is dying.

By hitting it, you probably jogged some mechanical part that was failing.

You got VERY lucky

I would backup all your data ASAP, just incase.

If this is not the case, it could be that water from the cloth (don't know what you were using) got to the hard drive or another component and caused problems, and again, it is just timing that the hit coincidently happened as the liquid dried and it now works..."