Server 2008 Won't Finish Booting After Snapshot

[rlrcstr68]

I built a Windows 2008 R2 VM.  Installed SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and a bunch of class files for teaching a class.

Everything seemed fine.  Rebooted a zillion times during installs and patching, etc...

After everything was installed I shut it down and took a snapshot so i couold revert back each time I wanted to start a new class.  Ever since the snapshot, it will no longer boot up properly.

I get the little Microsoft progress meter typical of WIndows 2008 initial boot and then a black screen.  Nothing ever happens after that.

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks.

rlrcstr

[continuum]

Hi and welcome
Not sure what went wrong ...

You said you was never able to boot after the snapshot was created ?
Then that snapshot should have no important data yet ...

Is this the first snapshot of that VM ?

post a filelisting and the vmx-file and ALL the vmware.logs - zipped into one file

[rlrcstr68]

It was able to boot, just seemed that you couldn't see the login screen.  You could see a mouse cursor and move it around, but everything else was black.  Safe mode would work just fine.  It must have been a video driver issue.  Base video finally got me in.

Thanks.

J