windows xp does not start in safe mode
From: kiran (kiranu_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/04/03
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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:21:21 -0700
I recently moved. The computer rebooted and I used it
fine for 3 days. I did not install any s/w or h/w.
Now, Whenever I try to start up XP, I get a full screen
detailed message saying that Windows did not start
successfully. It explains that this could be because of
many reasons blah blah, and gives me 5 choices, to select
to try and start windows again. These are: Safe Mode Safe
Mode with Networking Safe mode with command prompt Last
known good config Normal
None of these have worked, and whenever it starts to
load, it comes straight back to a black screen without
any message (in normal mode) and with a message on the
sides of my screen (in safemode). But the rest of screen
is just blank.
Is there any solution if your computer was shipped with
Windows XP Home pre-installed, without the installation
disk? I also have a back-up laptop with windows xp home
with floppy and cd-writer. These are my only resources at
present.
I also went to the MS website, and downloaded a bootable
set of disks and tried to load. After the computer boot
up, it comes with 2 options, namely 1) start from
c:\windows or 2) d:\MiniNT. I chose the latter, and did a
chkdsk /r. Before I tried the chkdsk, I just went to all
my folders, and I was able to see all of them and open
one of them. So I was happy that atleast my entire
harddrive did not die.
After running the chkdsk, it said , it fixed some errors
and then I rebooted the computer. Same problem.
Please help. I hope I do not have to loose data, but if
that's the case, so be it. Please also let me know if
there are alternative ways of removing my hard drive and
somehow saving my data using a friend's computer or so.
Please reply back directly to kiranu@hotmail.com
Thanks.
Kiran
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