TheGr8Schlotzky
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As the title states, I installed service pack 3 on my home computer, running XP Professional, and it installed fine, acted normal, told me i needed to restart, so I did. It got past to the XP screen, and to the pre-OS update screen, then gives me a bsod, stating some error regaurding gdi32.dll. I can't fully read the error message as it runs off the screen on both sides, but nothing works. I can't boot in safe mode as it is corrupt as well and I can't load "last known good configuration." Obviously can't do a system restore thru xp as it doesn't load windows, though I did set a system restore point right before installing sp3.
I'm currently running on a backup ide hard drive on ubuntu.
So what am I left to do? There is plenty of data on the hard drive that I don't want to lose. Worst case, I can still access it thru ubuntu and back it up to an external, but I'd really rather not deal with reformatting again. Is there a way to do a system restore on a hard drive other than the one I'm running off of? I can install XP pro on another hard drive and run it if I need windows to be able to do so.
TIA
I'm currently running on a backup ide hard drive on ubuntu.
So what am I left to do? There is plenty of data on the hard drive that I don't want to lose. Worst case, I can still access it thru ubuntu and back it up to an external, but I'd really rather not deal with reformatting again. Is there a way to do a system restore on a hard drive other than the one I'm running off of? I can install XP pro on another hard drive and run it if I need windows to be able to do so.
TIA