[Kspaien]

I currently just received System Recovery discs for my computer because it never came with any and I was having issues. So I used them, went through the directions and did a Full System Recovery.

At the end of this little recovery it all works out smoothly until the OS loads. I get that screen that says 'Windows XP Home Edition' with the little loading bar for a second or two and then a black screen. It remains black... and doesn't do anything else. No loading, no nothing.

I'm supposed to go through a series of questions according to the directions. But instead I get this. How do I fix this?

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Maybe a repair install is in order.

Actually, I had a problem like this last night. I had to recover with my Restore Disks and it wasnt writing them fast enough it said it would take 34hours. It used to take 10mins! So the drive died.

But that doesnt mean yours is dying. We will try to run a repair. Follow this link. It even has pictures if you get confused.
http://www.windowsxp...dexfullpage.htm

HTH!

[ultimateslacker2]

Maybe a repair install is in order.

Actually, I had a problem like this last night. I had to recover with my Restore Disks and it wasnt writing them fast enough it said it would take 34hours. It used to take 10mins! So the drive died.

But that doesnt mean yours is dying. We will try to run a repair. Follow this link. It even has pictures if you get confused.
http://www.windowsxp...dexfullpage.htm

HTH!

[Kspaien]

Well.... I don't have a OS cd. So I'm ultimately screwed there.

[ultimateslacker2]

Can you access safe-mode?

[dsenette]

do you have only one video card? or do you have two? is one of them built into the mother board and the other one a seperate card...like agp or pci?