Pitifully. I have been unable to boot into safe mode. What happens is I get this miniaturized safe mode screen, and the cursor is frozen. Then up comes a "help" page, that bis not, and then when it is disposed of I have this squashed safe -window and literally have to re-start to escape it. The DELL support have diagnosed this as a hard drive damaged by the power outage. I am rebooting the entire system off my o/s Me disk, ,wiping and starting over, I hope, a fresh. I have "removed" the the video drivers and reinstalled them, but never from safe.
Does it make a difference? really?
Right now I am re-installing Me and have a black screen....