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Windows Does Not Boot

After installing SP3 and rebooting the pc, I get the following:

windows did not start successfully. a recent hardware or software change might have caused the problem.

This is what I tried and which did not work:
Last Known Good
Safe Mode- Just goes back to the above message
Recovery Console- Ran CHKDSK /P R
Scan Disk

Any ideas restoring the system without having to reformat or reinstalling Windows completely. I do not want to lose files.
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if the repair doesn;t work you can always try the acronis recovery tool to copy files to external HD and then reformat and reinstall.  this way you get a clean system.  if the HD is dying then the acronis tool is very good at recovering files also