Last night my PC was acting a bit strange, so I decided to restart it to see if that would improve the situation. Unfortunately, after doing so, it would not boot into Windows. I can see it POST, but where I would normally expect the Windows loading screen, I instead get a blank screen (not the "No Signal" display). At this point there does not appear to be any disk activity or anything else; it just hangs. I tried to press F8 to get to boot into Safe Mode, but this brings me to my BIOS's boot device menu. If I select my primary hard drive and tell it to boot and then try to press F8 I get no response (just the blank screen, as before).
I was able to boot into the recovery console and tried performing a fixboot
and fixmbr
to fix the problem, but this did not have any effect, but I was able to see that the filesystem appeared to be intact.
For reference the OS is Windows XP Pro.
Any thoughts for what could be causing this and any solutions?
Edit
I was also able to run chkdsk /r
from the recovery console. If I do this right when starting the recovery console, I receive a message that there were unrecoverable errors, but if I first do a fixboot C:
then it does not return any problems.