C
Craig
Hi folks,
This month's PC World magazine tells of the Administrator logon for
WindowsXP Home that can only be accessed in Safe Mode. I tried getting into
safe mode to create a logon password for this Administrator account by
starting the PC while pushing the F8 key. I do get the choice when this
happens to boot in Safe Mode. The booting starts but then stops and the PC
goes into a loop of starting over again. Each time I choose Safe Mode, I'm
returned to the restart loop and never get the PC running. Yet when booting
normally (no F8), I boot right into WindowsXP with no problems at all.
Any thoughts on why I can boot normally but am unable to boot into Safe
Mode? Alternatively, can you offer any suggestion as to what I can do to
track down the cause of this problem?
Thanks.
PS--I also tried getting into safe mode by checking the /SAFEBOOT box in the
boot.ini section of msconfig. This puts me into the infinite restart mode
just as when I start the PC with the F8 key depressed--except that when
doing this, I'm not given the ability to reboot normally, so the PC was
unusable until I rebooted the PC with a Symantec Recovery CD and manually
edited the boot.ini to remove the /SAFEBOOT option. Note that this attempt
to get into Safe Mode was done only after repeated failures using the F8 key
method.
PPS--I'm fairly sure I've had this PC in Safe Mode before so this would be a
problem that's developed some time in the past. It is possible that this PC
has never been able to get into Safe Mode. It's not something I do every day
and although I've had some PCs in Safe Mode, it's possible but unlikely that
this PC has never been put into Safe Mode.
This month's PC World magazine tells of the Administrator logon for
WindowsXP Home that can only be accessed in Safe Mode. I tried getting into
safe mode to create a logon password for this Administrator account by
starting the PC while pushing the F8 key. I do get the choice when this
happens to boot in Safe Mode. The booting starts but then stops and the PC
goes into a loop of starting over again. Each time I choose Safe Mode, I'm
returned to the restart loop and never get the PC running. Yet when booting
normally (no F8), I boot right into WindowsXP with no problems at all.
Any thoughts on why I can boot normally but am unable to boot into Safe
Mode? Alternatively, can you offer any suggestion as to what I can do to
track down the cause of this problem?
Thanks.
PS--I also tried getting into safe mode by checking the /SAFEBOOT box in the
boot.ini section of msconfig. This puts me into the infinite restart mode
just as when I start the PC with the F8 key depressed--except that when
doing this, I'm not given the ability to reboot normally, so the PC was
unusable until I rebooted the PC with a Symantec Recovery CD and manually
edited the boot.ini to remove the /SAFEBOOT option. Note that this attempt
to get into Safe Mode was done only after repeated failures using the F8 key
method.
PPS--I'm fairly sure I've had this PC in Safe Mode before so this would be a
problem that's developed some time in the past. It is possible that this PC
has never been able to get into Safe Mode. It's not something I do every day
and although I've had some PCs in Safe Mode, it's possible but unlikely that
this PC has never been put into Safe Mode.