Dealing with empty black screen in Windows XP

Empty black screen is a common scenario in Windows environment. There are situations when computer just stops responding upon startup. You get to see an empty black screen after POST (Power-on Self Test) and before appearance of Microsoft Windows logo screen. This condition results in failure of booting process of system. As a result, data stored in the system becomes inaccessible. It causes critical data loss situations, which can be resolved using computer files recovery software. But if backup is available you can avert the need of data recovery software, provided you have latest and updated backup copy.

Usually what happens is when you attempt to start your Windows XP computer, it simply hangs and shows an empty black screen after POST and before Windows XP loads. This behavior repeats every time you try to start your system.

In such a situation your first action should be to find out the root cause of the problem in order to access the computer data files again. If problem is complicated you are bound to take help of Computer File Recovery software.

Grounds of the issue

You may come across this behavior of Microsoft Windows XP, if either of the below conditions is true:

1. You have a floppy disk, a CD, or a DVD in your floppy, CD, or DVD drive when you boot your system.
 
2. This behavior may also take place if any of the below components of your Windows system are damaged and does not load during boot sequence of your computer:

3. MBR (Master Boot Record)

4. Boot Sector

5. Partition Tables

6. NTLDR (NT Loader) File

These are very critical data structures of a Windows system, and after corruption to such data structures Windows cannot locate and access important files that are required to start your computer.

Solution to this problem

In order to fix this problem, follow the given below steps:

A. As a first try you can fix the problem by removing media in floppy, CD, or DVD and then reboot your system.

B. Next thing you can do is examine the damaged component and replace it using Windows XP boot CD.

If the above methods do not work, it’s recommended that you go for Computer File Recovery software to get your data recovered. Computer File Recovery software uses quick algorithms for impeccable and faster recovery of computer files. It’s completely safe and easy to use. Software is designed to recover all types of computer files that have been deleted, damaged, or inaccessible due to deletion, formatting or corruption of FAT and NTFS partitions. Computer files recovery is possible on various Operating Systems including DOS, MS Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.