What do you see? When Windows tries but fails to boot, there are several possible displays you might see. These include a “black screen,” which essentially means nothing is on display at all.

Hi all,This evening, I messed up a lot of Windows XP installations. I'm really worried, and I should fix the issue.What did I do: I used the two boot disks generated by Partition Magic 8.0 to ...

IT web site TechRepublic suggests 10 things you can do to coax Windows XP into booting when it won't start up properly. The post covers everything fro ...

Obviously this isn't the wrong BIOS because I can boot, install a parallel WinXP and boot into the new install of XP.

QUESTION:I just got a new HP laptop - Celeron, XP Pro, Service Pack 2. After I installed Sympatico the laptop will no longer start up. When I reboot it, it displays the desktop briefly with just ...

Mahenthiran K installed a second hard drive into his PC. The computer should still boot from the original drive, but it doesn’t boot at all. When you install a second hard drive in a PC, it ...

QUESTION: My computer keeps going into sleep mode and reboots but it never starts Windows XP. I've tried pressing the F8 key and it goes to the DOS mode, but when I select to start Windows it just ...

And if you buy a new Mac or upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion before installing Windows using Boot Camp, you’d best have a Windows 7 installer handy, because Windows XP ain’t going to work.

System Restore results in an endless loop of Automatic Repair? Find out what you can do if Windows 11/10 won't boot after System Restore.