Power went off while PC was shutting down and installing updates

Power went off while PC was shutting down and installing 1 of 5 XP updates
(sadly I live in South Africa where ESKOM do this willy nilly). There was a
message as I was shutting down NOT to unplug the PC until the updates were
complete, but alas it was NOT my fault. Now when I restart, the PC starts up
and does the whole BIOS thing and scans for IDE drives but then I'm left with
a BLACK SCREEN!!! Pressing F8 doesn't help...PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! HELP
ME!!!!

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didopana wrote:
> Power went off while PC was shutting down and installing 1 of 5 XP
> updates
> (sadly I live in South Africa where ESKOM do this willy nilly). There was
> a
> message as I was shutting down NOT to unplug the PC until the updates were
> complete, but alas it was NOT my fault. Now when I restart, the PC starts
> up
> and does the whole BIOS thing and scans for IDE drives but then I'm left
> with a BLACK SCREEN!!! Pressing F8 doesn't help...PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
> HELP ME!!!!

(cross-post added to XP Perf & Maint)
"didopana" <> wrote in message news:4BE7F20A-01FA-41E9-BD66-...
> Power went off while PC was shutting down and installing 1 of 5 XP updates
> (sadly I live in South Africa where ESKOM do this willy nilly). There was a
> message as I was shutting down NOT to unplug the PC until the updates were
> complete, but alas it was NOT my fault. Now when I restart, the PC starts up
> and does the whole BIOS thing and scans for IDE drives but then I'm left with
> a BLACK SCREEN!!! Pressing F8 doesn't help...PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! HELP
> ME!!!!


Do you have an alternate boot for that partition?
E.g. one which has /SOS and /BASEVIDEO parameters
in its boot.ini settings. I think you could even create one
using the XP console, e.g. with its bootcfg tool but I'm not
certain of that...

<title>A discussion about the Bootcfg command and its uses</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980

(Live Search for
console bootcfg site:microsoft.com
)


In any case the WU NG is not the best place to be asking
for help about your predicament. Cross-posting to an alternative
NG for convenience.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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