[Ham-Computers] Booting into safe mode

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Brian,

I believe that you said originally that the machine was running some variety 
of XP.  None of which will fit on a floppy disk.  However, if you have the 
original OS CD, you should be able to boot from that.  It will only load generic 
drivers.  

Put the OS CD into the drive and turn the machine on.  If it still tries to 
boot from the hard drive, power down and next time take it into Setup.  On some 
machines it may take several attempts before you find the magic key as the 
message and opportunity to press the key or keys often appear for only a second 
or less.  Once you have it into Setup, go to Boot settings or something 
similar and change the boot device sequence so that CD preceeds HD.  Then once more 
into the breach and you should have it up probably with video in 640 x 480 VGA 
mode.  At that point you should have some options but what they are will 
depend upon what's on the CD or who supplied it.  One will probably be to 
re-install the OS from scratch but don't do that one if there is anything on the C: 
drive that you want to save.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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