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you can try to boot via F8 and select Last Know Good Configuration.<br />
This may get you back.<br />
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Have you tried to reboot in SafeMode yet?
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Perform OS repair using OS cd.<br />
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Please refer below link this might help you out.<br />
<a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/27c53584-14ad-4007-bdba-1179112c5a66/windows-server-2008-black-screen-with-mouse-please-help?forum=winservergen" rel="ugc nofollow">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/27c53584-14ad-4007-bdba-1179112c5a66/windows-server-2008-black-screen-with-mouse-please-help?forum=winservergen</a>
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Insert the Windows 2008 server DVD, then after choosing currency and language click on &quot;Repair your computer&quot;.<br />
Then open the command prompt .<br />
First: CHKDSK /R /F /X if it want to reboot - reboot then go back to the command prompt.<br />
After that: <br />
Copy COMPONENTS, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM &nbsp;from &nbsp;C:\Windows\System32\config<wbr />\ to backup directory<br />
Go to C:\Windows\System32\config<wbr />\regback and from there copy COMPONENTS, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM to C:\Windows\System32\config<wbr />\ . You will be asked about overwriting the files - overwrite them.<br />
Then reboot.
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Hope you had a solid backup copy somewhere. <br />
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Good luck.
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it really wasn't that critical of a server it just held three different roles which was just a software install. &nbsp; It was just a headache to reinstall....... thank you guys for all your input
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sorry everyone, I tried everything and nothing worked. &nbsp;I had to just rebuild it. &nbsp;Thank you all for your help.
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Hello everyone,<br />
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server info - server 2008 r2, &nbsp;nothing had changed and all was alright until the server froze and we had to hard boot it. &nbsp;Next the system came up asking if it could scan for problems and we said yes........after two days of waiting we hard booted it again and now we are at the black screen with mouse.<br />
Things I have tried:<br />
replacing COMPONENTS, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM regs with reg backups.<br />
startrep.exe<br />
chkdsk etc.<br />
<br />
Im just looking for more different ways to combat this problem that I haven't found on the net.<br />
<br />
Please help<br />
thank you
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Hello everyone,

server info - server 2008 r2,  nothing had changed and all was alright until the server froze and we had to hard boot it.  Next the system came up asking if it could scan for problems and we said yes........after two days of waiting we hard booted it again and now we are at the black screen with mouse.
Things I have tried:
replacing COMPONENTS, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM regs with reg backups.
startrep.exe
chkdsk etc.

Im just looking for more different ways to combat this problem that I haven't found on the net.

Please help
thank you

server 2008 r2 black screen with mouse

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.