Re: Booting in Safe Mode
- From: "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:09:28 -0700
Anthony,
Safe mode may not work in these situations:
1 A mass storage driver (SCSI or IDE) is damaged or has been accidentally
removed.
2 The Ntoskrnl.exe or Hal.dll file is damaged.
3 A program replaced system files that are critical to the operation of
Windows.
For 1, look in the Device Manager.
Start | Run | Type: devmgmt.msc | Click OK |
Look for a black exclamation point (!) on a yellow field, a red "X", a blue
"i" on a white field or a green question mark "?". Those all show some kind
of conflict, like messed up drivers.
Also look at Disk Drives, click the [+] to list your drive and double click
it. On the General tab that pops up it should show the Device status.
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System File Checker (sfc.exe) replaces screwed up system files.
For 2 & 3 run SFC.
Load your XP CD in your CD drive.
Start | Run | Type or paste: sfc /scannow | Click OK
sfc /scannow scans all protected system files immediately and replaces
incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.
System File Checker takes a while to run.
If you have XP Home and it asks for your XP Pro CD, see this KB article...
You may be prompted to insert a Windows XP Professional CD when you run the
System File Checker tool in Windows XP Home Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897128
If SFC.EXE did anything it will be listed in the Event Viewer.
Open the Event Viewer...
Start | Run | Type: eventvwr | Click OK | Click System |
Windows File Protection will be listed under the Source column. Look at any
Windows File Protection entries.
Explains a whole bunch about sfc.exe.
scannow sfc (sfc.exe)
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System File Checker
(Sfc.exe)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:E84BD66D-C3CF-4838-B182-D62CAD6567BD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Anthony1205 <Anthony1205@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Wesley
I ran the Windows Console software and selected disk 1 and ran chkdsk /p.
That showed there was a problem with an unnamed file.
I then ran chkdsk /r to repair the problem, following which I ran chkdsk
/p again. It showed a problem free disk. I then booted into the F8 menu
and selected "safe mode with command prompt". Unfortunately, it was not
playing ball and behaved in precisely the manner it did before: took me
into a black screen with "safe mode" in each corner, with the Windows
version across the top. The keyboard and mouse were ineffective. The
machine then displayed the log-in screen in VGA and, again was
unresponsive to keyboard or mouse input. It then booted into windows
normal mode.
I re-booted and went back to Windows console and tried to to select disk
2, on the basis that there is a different partition containing the
installaiton system files. I was then informed that no such volume
existed (or words to that effect).
Am not sure what to do now. Is there another way of accessing the
installation files on the other partition?
Anthony
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