Hi to all!I have a Windows XP Home SP1 OEM genuine installation and I tried to install Service Pack 2.The first time, after downloading the Service Pack, installation began but at some point gave me an error message ("Can not create a file list,a directory list" or sth like that) and SP2 was not installed.It didn't cause any problem to my Win XP SP1 installation.Then I tried a second time to install SP2.At some point during the installation, the same error message appeared, just like my previous description and SP2 was not installed either.But this time I wasn't so lucky:when I tried to boot Win XP I took an error message, that some file was missing.I tried FIXBOOT from the recovery console and after reboot, Win XP began to boot, CHKDSK was executed, it fixed a lot of errors,system rebooted, began to boot Win XP, but system hanged at some point with a black screen.After rebooting and loading recovery console I tried to uninstall SP2 from the command line.After finishing this succesfully, I rebooted my computer and Win XP began booting.But at some point, system hanged and after a very quick BSOD (I hardly saw it) , system rebooted.This was continued.I couldn't get in Win XP by any means,not even in safe mode.I tried a second fixboot but nothing changed.I tried a second SP2 uninstallation from the recovery console, but this didn't help either.Is there sth I can do to save my XP installation?Thanks in advance.
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Jump to Posttry, chkdsk /r ,in the recovery console .
not sure what extra problem you could have cause by doing a fixboot if it wasn't really needed .also hitting f8 on startup instead of going to safe mode chose disable reboot on system errors its in the list ,this will show …
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