Alright, Last night Win XP pro had auto downloaded the latest update from MS. I have my OS set to 'auto download, but let me install'. So I was notified of the update.
Right before I when to bed, I installed the update. When I got the 'windows needs to restart to finish the update' I shut down my computer and went to sleep. Today my system won't boot.
My system hangs after "Verifying DMI Pool Data.... Update Success" so I'm not given an option to start in safe mode. So I don't really have an easy way to rollback the 'update'.
But I don't think the 'update' itself is the problem, seems like something corrupted the boot sector during the update? Don't know.
I can boot to the CD and access files on the C: drive, just can't boot to it. Drive sounds healthy and I bought this drive as a replacement after my last episode in November... so I've been working without problems for 4 months or so.
Any ideas on how to approach this problem? I would really like to avoid another complete system re-install if at all possible.
Right before I when to bed, I installed the update. When I got the 'windows needs to restart to finish the update' I shut down my computer and went to sleep. Today my system won't boot.
My system hangs after "Verifying DMI Pool Data.... Update Success" so I'm not given an option to start in safe mode. So I don't really have an easy way to rollback the 'update'.
But I don't think the 'update' itself is the problem, seems like something corrupted the boot sector during the update? Don't know.
I can boot to the CD and access files on the C: drive, just can't boot to it. Drive sounds healthy and I bought this drive as a replacement after my last episode in November... so I've been working without problems for 4 months or so.
Any ideas on how to approach this problem? I would really like to avoid another complete system re-install if at all possible.