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re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 9:19 am Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) Dewey, this site has tons of archived info on this problem. Try the search function at the top of the page. bw On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 6:25 pm, Dewey Nelson wrote: >My computer has suddenly started in booting not at all or in Safe Mode. I have a >six week old backup drive so If I change the hard drive ID so my D: drive becomes >my C: drive all is well. I just don't know what to copy to my original C:\ drive >to make it boot properly. > >Any help??? Thanks for any guidance you can provide!!! > >Uncle Dewey [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 10:12 am Posted by Dewey Nelson (231 messages posted) Thanks Bob, I'll search for safe mode only boot and will let you know if/when I get out of this mess. Uncle Dewey On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 9:19 am, bob wells wrote: >Dewey, > >this site has tons of archived info on this problem. Try the search function at the >top of the page. > >bw > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:10 pm Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) Try here. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1115726397 BW On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 10:12 am, Dewey Nelson wrote: >Thanks Bob, I'll search for safe mode only boot and will let you know if/when I >get out of this mess. Uncle Dewey > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:20 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 9:19 am, bob wells wrote: this site has tons of archived info on this problem. Try the search function at the top of the page. Actually Bob the search facility on here is very poor, in fact its s***. I've only made one topic in WinXP 8 months ago. I know what I wrote in my problem I saved it to a file. So I've done a search for phrases, keywords and it come up with everything else but my topic. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:57 pm Posted by Dewey Nelson (231 messages posted) I had found that site, but it didn't help. I'm still trying, but....................... Uncle Dewey On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:10 pm, bob wells wrote: >Try here. > >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1115726397 > >BW > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:58 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Annoyances search leaves much to be desired, as Keith noted. Going to Google directly is more likely to yield results. Normally, it's due to a driver problem, and duplicate devices only show up in Safe mode. It's nothing serious. My old standby response for the locked in safe mode issue.. Are you sure it's Safe mode; does it say Safe mode in all four corners? IF it does say Safe Mode in all four corners, you'll need to do some troubleshooting. Safe Mode is a diagnostic mode. You can check some things to find out, what's preventing Windows from booting normally. Often it's a device driver problem. Check all your hardware devices to see whether there are any problems. Go into Device Manager... right click My Computer - Properties - Device Manager tab. Check for any duplicate or problem devices (with exclamation points). If there are any, delete ALL instances of that device. Reboot and Windows will detect new hardware and reinstall the drivers for the device/s. Other sources to check, if that doesn't help: Windows 98 Defaults to Safe Mode Even After Successful Start Troubleshooting Windows 98 Startup Problems Q188867 Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 2:04 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Once again, please post your reply ABOVE the post you're responding to, Keith! It's really very simple. I'm contacting Annoyances support about it, if you don't and can't be more considerate of the rest of us. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 2:26 pm Posted by Dewey Nelson (231 messages posted) It didn't work because I didn't do it right!!! {:-(((( I followed the instructions, but my cranky drive was not the drive I had booted with. So I now replugged, rebooted with my cranky drive and it worked!!!!! {:-)))) Thanks for telling me even though I had been there already!! Without this web site I'd be in trouble for ever!!! Thanks so much!!!!!!! Uncle Dewey On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 1:57 pm, Dewey Nelson wrote: >I had found that site, but it didn't help. I'm still trying, but....................... > Uncle Dewey > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Safe Mode Only!!!??? Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:32 am Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) Dewey, What is a "Cranky" drive. Tell me you're not running a bad HDD! If so, that could be the reason your System won't start normally. Just a thought. BW On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 2:26 pm, Dewey Nelson wrote: >It didn't work because I didn't do it right!!! {:-(((( I followed the instructions, >but my cranky drive was not the drive I had booted with. So I now replugged, rebooted >with my cranky drive and it worked!!!!! {:-)))) Thanks for telling me even though >I had been there already!! Without this web site I'd be in trouble for ever!!! > > >Thanks so much!!!!!!! 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