black screen on startup after upgrade to Windows XP Professional sp2

[bobomonkey]

Hi,

I recently unsuccessfully tried to upgrade to Windows XP Professional sp2. I was previously running win xp with sp2 (older build).

Since fresh install is not an option for me, I did the following

1) boot with xp cd
2)chose repair install

This brought a blue screen that said " Please wait while setup copies files to the windows installation folder". Then it said "Saving Configuration" and it rebooted automatically.

Now all i have is a Black screen with a mouse pointer. The pointer moves so i know it hasn't hung.
I tried safe mode but all it does is bring up this screen with "safe mode" written on top.
I have already tried chkdsk -r from recovery console.

Format is not an option for me.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Osiris]

so you were upgrading to sp2 even thou you had sp2 already? which repair feauture did you use?

 

[brady]

Did you select "Install and THEN repair"? Or just Repair?


Sounds like driver corruption with now chance of driver update...


LKG (Last Known Good) work?

 

[bobomonkey]

thanks but i formatted since i needed the pc real bad.

 

[brady]

always a good decision