unable to restart window XP after window updates installed

[lfh118]

I 'm unale to restart my window XP after window updates installed.

Error message reads : window did not start successfully. Recent hardware or
software change might have caused this.

It does not work when I select Safe Mode, or last known good configuration
or start window normally.

Can anyone help to advise what can I do to overcome this problem ?
lfh118

 

[RJK]

What you should have read and done before installing SP3 :-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&displaylang=en

....and of course, at the very LEAST, you did take a hard-disk image of your
working system immediately prior to installing SP3 ?
....in which case you could simply restore your system to the condition it
was in, before you wrecked it, then make the necessary preparations for
installing SP3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&displaylang=en
....once downloaded and burnt to disk, is my preferred method of dragging an
old XP platform up to date - to SP3 level, prior to the doing the 80 plus ?
updates since SP3

.... you may have to resort to a "repair install" :-
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxphome/installxpcdrepair/
....if you choose this route, you'll probably find that some, or all, of your
hardware drivers, and/or some or all of your installed applications software
will not survive, and may have to be re-installed, (or over-installed),

regards, Richard

 

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[RJK]

ooops !

....I was writing to repsonses, to two different OP's, at the same time,
guess I got them confused, though,

....it does often pay to image a hd before applying Widnows updates. !

regards, Richard