I am running Windows 8.1, and this morning I was prompted to reboot. I have been putting it off for a few days and it would no longer allow me to postpone. I restarted adding the updates and now when I boot I get nothing but a black screen. I can get to the bios, but not safe mode / windows recovery screen. The windows logo never comes up and hitting F8 nor shift + F8 does anything, due to the fact that I don't think windows exists in a non-corrupted state.
Is there anything I can do, other than going to someone else's house / computer and creating a boot disk / flash drive?