Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Black screen where XP login should be. Booting issue.

flipgeek · 05-12-2008, 03:10 PM

I'm not sure if this will help but did you try the recovery console?

Your Windows XP setup CDROM has a tool called the Recovery Console, which is designed to help you repair a damaged master boot record or boot sector. To start the Recovery Console and fix your damaged MBR, follow these steps:

1. Restart your computer with the Windows XP Setup disk in the CDROM drive.
2. If you are prompted to press a key to start the computer from CDROM, do so quickly. Otherwise it may try to boot from the hard drive.
3. After a few minutes, you'll see a prompt to press the R key to start the Recovery Console.
4. When Recovery Console starts, it will prompt you to enter a number corresponding to the Windows XP installation that you need to repair. In most cases, you'll enter "1" (which will be the only choice). If you press ENTER without typing a number, Recovery Console will quit and restart your computer.
5. Enter your Administrator password. If you don't enter the correct password, you cannot continue.
6. At the Recovery Console command prompt, type fixmbr and then verify that you want to proceed.

05-12-2008, 03:10 PM	#10 (permalink)
flipgeek Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 10 OS: XP, Vista, OpenSuse 10.3, Ubuntu 8.04	Re: Black screen where XP login should be. Booting issue. I'm not sure if this will help but did you try the recovery console? Your Windows XP setup CDROM has a tool called the Recovery Console, which is designed to help you repair a damaged master boot record or boot sector. To start the Recovery Console and fix your damaged MBR, follow these steps: 1. Restart your computer with the Windows XP Setup disk in the CDROM drive. 2. If you are prompted to press a key to start the computer from CDROM, do so quickly. Otherwise it may try to boot from the hard drive. 3. After a few minutes, you'll see a prompt to press the R key to start the Recovery Console. 4. When Recovery Console starts, it will prompt you to enter a number corresponding to the Windows XP installation that you need to repair. In most cases, you'll enter "1" (which will be the only choice). If you press ENTER without typing a number, Recovery Console will quit and restart your computer. 5. Enter your Administrator password. If you don't enter the correct password, you cannot continue. 6. At the Recovery Console command prompt, type fixmbr and then verify that you want to proceed.