Hi everyone,
Ok this is what happened.
I connected an old hard drive to a computer of mine that already had windows installed on it.
I wanted to install Windows on the old hard drive so I booted from the Windows CD.
That CD gave me a message that said one of your Windows installations is damaged, press R to repair (or something like that) -- This was the Windows that was already installed on the computer.
So I figured why not and I pressed R. It went into recovery mode and did everything then it rebooted to the setup screen (from the hard drive). Right when I was about to click next, I flipped off the power strip with my foot by accident (bad news).
Everything shut off, and now I have a black screen with an active mouse cursor.
I saw other people have had these issues.
I can still boot from Windows CD, and it still tells me the Windows installation is damaged, and when I press R it goes through the process off the CD and then reboots to the black screen.
When I try safemode, it boots to a black screen, but I can see the white writing on the top and four corners of the screen that says like "Windows XP Pro Safemode" or whatever.
I went into the Windows recovery console and I can see all the files are still on the HD so I didn't lose any data.
I tried last known good configuration, no go.
I really would rather not reformat being that I have so much data in different locations that it would be very frustrating to back up.
Edit:
I tried disable mup (nothing changes except my mouse stops working at the black screen)
I can do fixmbr, and it tells me I have an irregular master boot record or something, and I hit y anyway and it doesn't do anything. (next time I try fixmbr it still says the same thing).
I tried chkdsk /R , and it said it found and fixed an error, but I don't think it did.
I tried running the WD repair HD thing and it did a full scan and said there are no errors.
Ok this is what happened.
I connected an old hard drive to a computer of mine that already had windows installed on it.
I wanted to install Windows on the old hard drive so I booted from the Windows CD.
That CD gave me a message that said one of your Windows installations is damaged, press R to repair (or something like that) -- This was the Windows that was already installed on the computer.
So I figured why not and I pressed R. It went into recovery mode and did everything then it rebooted to the setup screen (from the hard drive). Right when I was about to click next, I flipped off the power strip with my foot by accident (bad news).
Everything shut off, and now I have a black screen with an active mouse cursor.
I saw other people have had these issues.
I can still boot from Windows CD, and it still tells me the Windows installation is damaged, and when I press R it goes through the process off the CD and then reboots to the black screen.
When I try safemode, it boots to a black screen, but I can see the white writing on the top and four corners of the screen that says like "Windows XP Pro Safemode" or whatever.
I went into the Windows recovery console and I can see all the files are still on the HD so I didn't lose any data.
I tried last known good configuration, no go.
I really would rather not reformat being that I have so much data in different locations that it would be very frustrating to back up.
Edit:
I tried disable mup (nothing changes except my mouse stops working at the black screen)
I can do fixmbr, and it tells me I have an irregular master boot record or something, and I hit y anyway and it doesn't do anything. (next time I try fixmbr it still says the same thing).
I tried chkdsk /R , and it said it found and fixed an error, but I don't think it did.
I tried running the WD repair HD thing and it did a full scan and said there are no errors.