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I had my computer in Safe Mode (won't go into lengthly reasons for
that), and decided to run the xp install disk for repairs. So I boot
from the xp install cdrom and all goes normally and I choose the
repair option. It takes a few minutes loading a bunch of files and
then says, " must reboot now to finish". So the computer re-boots
automatically, but now it comes up with a screen ""Windows xp setup
cannot run under Safemode. Setup will restart now"
At this point the machine re-boots and it goes straight to the "cannot
run under Safemode" error message again. This repeats endlessly.
I need to get out of safemode or get the XP Setup program to stop
running. But no sucess.
I ran NTFS4DOS and can see that my boot.ini has the safemode flag
set, but I can't see how to edit the file, since every time I run edit
and try to save the file, the computer crashes.
Guess the old "edit" program is not compatable with NTSF??
This is a bad bug with XP Setup. It should detect that you are in
safemode in the first place and not allow this to happen.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tom W.
that), and decided to run the xp install disk for repairs. So I boot
from the xp install cdrom and all goes normally and I choose the
repair option. It takes a few minutes loading a bunch of files and
then says, " must reboot now to finish". So the computer re-boots
automatically, but now it comes up with a screen ""Windows xp setup
cannot run under Safemode. Setup will restart now"
At this point the machine re-boots and it goes straight to the "cannot
run under Safemode" error message again. This repeats endlessly.
I need to get out of safemode or get the XP Setup program to stop
running. But no sucess.
I ran NTFS4DOS and can see that my boot.ini has the safemode flag
set, but I can't see how to edit the file, since every time I run edit
and try to save the file, the computer crashes.
Guess the old "edit" program is not compatable with NTSF??
This is a bad bug with XP Setup. It should detect that you are in
safemode in the first place and not allow this to happen.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tom W.