Re: Trouble Starting in SAFE Mode

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From: Don R (drist_at_att.net)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 03:21:18 GMT

Kaylene - Thanks for the advice. I believe you are correct about selecting the hard drive and continuing on. I'm probably hitting
the F8 key to early in the boot sequence.

Is there another key combination that brings up Safe mode? I seem to remember pressing F3 and holding down the control key worked
in Win 98 and I wondered if there were other key combinations that work in WinXP Home Edition. I searched through the Windows XP
help and could find no reference to Safe mode.

Don R

"Kaylene aka Taurarian" <taurarian@REMOVE_CAPS_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:enEVpDfGEHA.1968@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I have the same sort of set up, choose HD and then start pressing F8 again
> immediately. That works for me, hope it does for you.
>
> "Don R" <drist@att.net> wrote in message
> news:dLKbc.13956$Dv2.7108@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > Pressing F8 during the boot process brings up a window from my BIOS allowing
> selection of the boot device; Floppy, CD, or Hard
> > Drive. While this is convenient, what I really want to do is boot XP into
> Safe mode.
> >
> > Is there another key combination that makes XP boot into Safe Mode? Right now
> I'm stuck with using MSConfig and reconfiguring the
> > system to boot into safe mode.
> >
> > --
> > Don Rist
> >
> >
>

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