Re: can't boot XP home into safe mode

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:06:13 -0400

What about putting the computer on your LAN, connecting to the default admin
share(s) across the network, and copying the files across that way (taking
ownership if need be at that point)?

For laptops - not recommended to have important data stored solely on them.
Offline files is one option (but I dislike it) - see www.centered.com for a
very inexpensive little utility that syncs files very well. That way, if the
laptop gets stolen or crushed by marauding elephants, you still have a copy
of the data from the last time the sync was done - I usually set up
SecondCopy to sync every 30 minutes to the user's home directory on the
server, from the local data folder (I also usually set up c:\data rather
than using the profile folder for My Documents).

HTH

Brad Pears wrote:
> I am caught in a catch 22. One of our users had problems with his
> personal laptop and now cannot access a directory he has tons of work
> related data in. Even though he is an "administrator" he gets an
> "access denied" error.
>
> When researching the issue, I discovered that you can boot into safe
> mode to acess the "security" tab to take ownership of the
> directory/file - which would resolve the problem. However, this
> machine locks up when attempting to boot into safe mode - so I can't
> get a celan "safe" boot!!!
>
> Question...
>
> 1) Is there an alternative method of taking ownership of files if one
> can't boot into safe mode in XP Home?
>
> 2) How could one go about resolving the "unable to boot into safe
> mode" issue? As it boots up, it shows you all the drivers as it
> processes them, and that is where it locks up - presumable one of the
> drivers must be bad??
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad

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