[Ham-Computers] Booting into safe mode

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

OK.  You're welcome.  I'll add two caveats.  

One, it doesn't have to be the original OS CD for the machine you are trying 
to fix, just to see whether it is going to work or to see whether you need to 
redo the boot source order.  But you don't want to reinstall the OS from a CD 
that belongs to one of your working machines.  Sooner or later, MicroSoft will 
figure out that the same copy is installed on two machines and you'll have 
trouble with both.  And I'm not actually sure about doing a repair with a CD 
that belongs to another machine.  Maybe Aaron knows the answer to that.  It's 
outside my area of knowledge.

Two, if the machine is older than circa 1995 (I think) it may not have BIOS 
support for a CD drive.  But "Two" is unlikely in your case if the machine is 
running XP today.  If the machine originally shipped with a CD drive, it should 
have BIOS support and be able to boot from it.

In a message dated 10/17/2008 9:41:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> Thanks for the input Robert!
>   
>  I'll have to get the OS CD from the owner and see if that does the trick.
>   
>   
>  
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: WA5CAB at cs.com 
>> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net 
>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 9:07 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Booting into safe mode
>>  
>> 
>> 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.  
> 

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