Can't get to Safe Mode

[Jon]

My computer keeps restarting and then going into power
save mode. I want to look at the settings for power
management to see if they have somehow been changed. This
all seems to have started due to some corrupted files
which scan disk attempted to fix.

F8 gets me to the screeen for the Safe Mode choices but
when I select safe mode I just get a list of files and the
computer then restarts again.

I checked the hard drive with a diagnostic tool from the
manufacturer to see if that was the problem. Basic mode
reported no errors. Extended mode writes to the drive and
I don't want to do that.

I also ran chkdsk /p by booting from the X restore disk
and selecting the recovery option. At first check disk
reported errors on the volume. It must fix them because
the next time I ran chkdsk there were no errors.

I don't want to reinstall XL on the drive because it will
over write files. If I could copy the files that would
solve some of my problems but recovery mode doesn't seem
to allow this.

Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Hi Try using the delete button to get in to safe mode
look for the prompt when you start up hope this is of
some help