Re: I cannot boot Windows XP in safe mode

Hi Santistas,

The work around given was an action plan, and not the resolution, we are
trying to help engineers / system administrators / technical people who have
issue, we assume that you would do precautionary measures to back up your
setup before attempting the action plan given .

You would have not commented in your way if the soultion would have worked !.

And we go indepth of architecture and respond to the questions , just not by
any trial and error basis.

Regards,
Sainath SMB KID

"SantistaS" wrote:

Sainath: you made too many questions and gave the wrong answer.

I did what you suggested and since then I could no more boot my PC, even in
"Normal Mode".

Since that day, Windows always tried to boot in the safe mode but, as I
told, due to an unknown problem, the process run up to the "mup.sys" file
and then reboots.

And after the change you suggested, Windows did this loop indefinitely!

To solve this loop, I transferred this HD to another PC, edited the
"boot.ini" file, and deleted the permanent "Safe Mode" option, inserted
there by your suggestion.

Then I reinstalled Windows in that HD with the "Repair" option.
Now I can boot again using this HD, in the Normal as well in the Safe Mode.

The lesson I learned was:

Don't always trust the suggestions posted in this Newsgroup!
Specially when done by kids.

Sorry Sainath,

SantistaS
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"Sainath , SMB KID" wrote in message
hi Santistas,

how is the physical drives on the system mounted ? ,

Does your C drive mounted on SATA or IDE ?

This might occur if yo have changed your drive from SATA or IDE to SATA or
IDE drive or NTOSKRNL or HALL.dll is damaged in most of the situations


Action Plan
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See if you can get to Safe Mode this way.

Start | Run | Type: msconfig | Click OK |
Boot.ini tab | Check: /SAFEBOOT | Click Apply |
Click OK | When you see the prompt to restart the computer |
Click Restart

Don't forget to UNCheck /SAFEBOOT in msconfig after/if you get into Safe
Mode and are done doing whatever or you will be STUCK in Safe Mode.


2) run recovery console and run chkdsk /r within the recovery console.

3) Try uninstalling a newly installed program and check if safe mode is
working


Question
======
when was the last time it worked

what changes did u made after which safe mode stopped working

REgards,
Sainath SMB KID.





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