Re: Can't boot into Safe Mode

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On the battle with the malware - I won. Info from system as follows:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name XXXXX
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Dell DM051
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A05, 3/31/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name xxxxxxxxxxx
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 214.15 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.95 GB
Page File Space 1.22 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

"Jose" <jose_ease@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:33d4a095-13b2-471e-9bb7-051cf396551c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Nov 10, 11:38 am, "skeet3" <adss...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
During my battle with some malware this morning, I found out I can no
longer
boot into safe mode? In looking at the event log during this time I see 2
ftdisk errors - first one was - "The system could not sucessfully load the
crash dump driver.", second one was "Configuring the Page file for crash
dump failed. Make sure there is a page file on the boot partition and that
is large enough to contain all physical memory." It had been quite some
time since I've tried to boot into Safe Mode, so I'm not sure when it may
have started.

Any ideas?

Windows XP Pro with SP3 and all updates
IE 8 with updates.
Dell Dimension, 512 MB RAM, 80 gig harddrive but only using 9.72.

--
Allen Hardy III

"Old age and treachery always wins
over youth and skill" -
Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

Who won the battle?

Reduce the chances of malicious software by running some scans.

Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:

Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

These can be uninstalled later if desired.

Click Start, Run and in the box enter:

msinfo32

Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select
All, Copy and then paste
the information back here.

There will be some personal information (like System Name and User
Name), and whatever appears to
be private information to you, just delete from the pasted
information.

This will minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork and
assumptions.


.

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