I hope someone can help me out.
Last night before going to bed I let vista install all the outstanding updates it had been nagging me about.
It prompted me to restart today (I hadn't looked at it since last night) and I did so. However, while restarting, it became unresponsive so I stupidly held down the power knob to restart it. Now when vista loads up it comes to a screen where it says "configuring updates step 3 of 3 do not shut down and moves from 0% to 99% in seconds then automatically reboots. I tried to boot into safe mode but the update greets me there as well.
Its a dual boot with XP and vista and right now I'm using knoppix because it boots faster than xp.
Is there anything I can do...delete some folder or file or something that will let vista abort the update process and let me log in and start the process over? Oh and it seems I can't boot from my vista disc. It autoplays under XP but won't boot from it.
Thanks in advance for your help and time
Last night before going to bed I let vista install all the outstanding updates it had been nagging me about.
It prompted me to restart today (I hadn't looked at it since last night) and I did so. However, while restarting, it became unresponsive so I stupidly held down the power knob to restart it. Now when vista loads up it comes to a screen where it says "configuring updates step 3 of 3 do not shut down and moves from 0% to 99% in seconds then automatically reboots. I tried to boot into safe mode but the update greets me there as well.
Its a dual boot with XP and vista and right now I'm using knoppix because it boots faster than xp.
Is there anything I can do...delete some folder or file or something that will let vista abort the update process and let me log in and start the process over? Oh and it seems I can't boot from my vista disc. It autoplays under XP but won't boot from it.
Thanks in advance for your help and time