Hi emhdave :-)
Have you by chance seen the replies to this post? Have you tried any of the
suggestions that have been offered here? Did no none of them work for you?
If not, what happened?
Hope this helps.
Jan

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> I'm currently experiencing the exact same problems. Did you manage to find
> any solution yet?
>
> "encee" wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have just booted my PC this morning to be greeted by a black screen
>> (apart from the Vista RC1 5600 version number and my mouse pointer). I
>> have
>> to this point been using RC1 with no problems for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> Booting into safe mode results in the same screen.
>>
>> What are my options to recover this installation?
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have found out that System restore was disabled after
>> the
>> upgrade from XP and that my backup is corrupted!!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>>