Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: Meltorefas on June 22, 2008, 01:04:43 AM
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OS Specifics: Windows XP Professional SP2
Ok, here are my problems.
1: Pressing F8 (repeatedly) during reboot does not launch boot menu. Nor does holding it down during reboot.
2: The BOOT.INI tab in MSCONFIG is misssing. The boot.ini file on my hard drive appears to be fine. Attempts to restore BOOT.INI tab have so far failed.
3: My computer is a laptop, and thus has no floppy drive. The CD drive is currently broken, so I cannot use the XP CD to access the recovery console and attempt to rebuild my boot.ini (just in case that is the problem).
So... with all this... I just cannot get to safe mode. I have tried downloading recovery console ISOs to install the recovery console locally, but none of the ISOs I have found contain winnt32.exe. I haven't been able to find what I need anywhere on the 'net so far either, been looking for hours. If anyone can help me here, I would greatly appreciate it.
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is there any particular reason that you need to access SAFE MODE?
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At this exact moment? No. But surely you can see that being able to access safe mode in general is rather important, yes? ^^
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I found this on Google.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootini.htm
It looks interesting...
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would it be possible for you to get hold of a usb cd-rom drive and boot from that? (providing that your computer's BIOS is new enough.
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I found this on Google.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootini.htm
It looks interesting...
First thing I tried, sadly. : / Thanks though.
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would it be possible for you to get hold of a usb cd-rom drive and boot from that? (providing that your computer's BIOS is new enough.
Well, I would like to not have to spend the money on that if I can avoid it. If there w as something really important I needed to do in safe mode *right now* that'd be different, of course. ^^ But, at this point I am just trying to correct the actual problem, as opposed to working around it. Thanks though!
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Go to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter...
Have your XP CD handy as it will ask for it.
Let it run to completion and remove the XP CD and re-boot...
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Go to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter...
Have your XP CD handy as it will ask for it.
Let it run to completion and remove the XP CD and re-boot...
Erm, apparently you missed the part where I don't have a working CD drive. ^^;