[Ham-Computers] Booting into safe mode

[Loren Moline WA7SKT]

Hello,

I know you should never say never but in all the years I have been using computers of which I had used for a while I have never had to reformat a harddrive except where there was a crash.

As I told my son who was always reformatting his harddrive....reformatting is only a last resort..unless there is defective hardware there is always some way to get the system back up and running...its just a matter of breaking into the loop and getting rid of the corruption or whatever.

 

Loren   WA7SKT


 
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From: dfischer at usol.com
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Booting into safe mode
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:46:45 -0400










Loren was correct. An emergency boot disc should 
have been made by the owner as soon as the system was up and 
running.    
    
However, as details come out, it appears he made 
some serious mistakes when he tried to update a friends computer. Time to call 
in a Pro before more damage happens -    
 

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  Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:07 
  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.  

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 
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MVPA 9480 
  
  

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