re: Can't run Safe Mode
Monday, July 26, 2004 at 2:11 pm
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Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
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Certainly the system is reading the drive so you should be able to make an image
of the drive and burn it to CDRs, but it might be uneconomical do to so depending
on the size of the drive.
Given the message to Reinstall Windows it might be better to do so, but I don't know
what state the computer is in, or how much maintenance has been done, if any.
If you add Delindex.bat to the bootdisk and run it from the prompt you might clear
the system, especially if it is likely that the drive is full and there is not enough
free-space for it to start.
A:\>delindex run , and press Enter.
Then: A:\>scandisk /all /surface , A:\>scanreg /fix /opt
And you can also try: A:\>scanreg /restore , to restore a working registry if one
is still available.
Will it start in Safe Mode by tapping the F8 key whilst the computer is booting so
that you can run scandisk and defrag from safe mode?
Can you also run an Anti-Virus rescue disk set made on your computer, on the owners's
computer to see if there is a virus?
If you cannot get into the drive then, as a last resort you can slave the drive to
another computer's Master drive and run an anti-virus scan and then check it to see
if the data is recoverable and burn it to CDRs or transfer the data to the Master
drive and fdisk partition & format the slave drive in preparation for a reinstall
using the recovery CDs.
I think you are looking at copying the drive's data to another drive using xcopy
, but it is probably safer to slave the drive.
If you can copy the missing file from the floppy to: c:\windows\system , you might
be in with a chance: copy a:\shlwapi.dll c:\windows\system
... or possibly the logo.sys file is corrupt.
A:\>del c:\logo.sys , and press Enter.
Certainly there are things that you can try before formatting and reinstalling.
Mac
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- re: Can't run Safe Mode (Maribeth Kelly: Monday, July 26, 2004 at 12:27 pm)
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