F8 no more start options !

[MoiMeme]

Hi,
when I hit F8 I am presented with a menu to choose which drive to boot from
and no more to boot nomal or safe and so on.

Why?
How correct ?

I ned to boot in safe mode because problem installing VMWare Player

TIA !!!

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Your BIOS probably uses that as an interrupt. Wait until the POST completes
before hitting F8.

An alternative way of forcing safe mode is to click start/run, type msconfig
and click ok. Click the boot.ini tab, then enable the /safeboot option.
Click apply/ok and reboot and you should go straight to safe mode. Reverse
the steps to resume booting normally.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[MoiMeme]

Thanks.
Indeed, hitting F8 just when choosing the "boot device" from first F8
allowed me to go into safe mode. But I had to be fast ( went twice into XP
instead)
Msconfig tip is useful. Will try to remember that.
Thanks again