Computer boots to black screen after using system restore.

[Maddy]

Hi

I was doing a system restore earlier today on my PC. During or after system restore, the computer restarted to a blank screen. This happens when I try to boot to Safe mode/Safe mode with command prompt, or networking. I can no longer get to my desktop and I have tried everything. Last know good configuration, and normal system startup also doesn't work. Please help

thanks in advance

-Maddy

[Gecko]

Do you see the BIOS bootup screen?
And what do you mean by system restore, windows restore or restore disk?

[Maddy]

I was using system restore to rollback to a previous month. After the computer restarted it just brought me to a black screen with a functional cursor.

I can get to the bios screen, and after POST it goes lets me choose the following;

Safe mode
Safe mode with command prompt
Safe mode with networking

Last known good configuration

Start windows normally.

All of these bring me to the same black screen with a functioning cursor.

I do not want to reformat, but I heard that using a windows xp disk at startup can be used to restore the changes from the last system restore.

-Maddy