Can you boot into Safe Mode?






On Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 6:11 pm, Sean wrote:
>Alright I can tell this is going to be fun...posting in this forum is my last resort. 
>Before I start, let me say my problem is DIFFERENT from all the others I’ve seen 
>because I cannot boot into windows at all to turn off the 'Automatically restart 
>on BSOD' option. 
>First off let me start by saying, my (other) computer decided it wanted to delete 
>the Windows\System32\Drivers folder for no reason...how convenient!
>Right after the XP loading screen goes off, a blue screen flashes and it restarts. 
>So I stuck in my XP CD and did the good old' in-place upgrade. It goes through the 
>upgrade perfectly fine (so it replaced the system32\drivers directory so that's 
no 
>longer an issue) until it tries to initialize the installation. It says: "Setup 
cannot 
>set the required Windows XP configuration information. This indicates an internal 
>setup error. Contact system administrator." I've tried doing this many times and 
>it says it each time. I would contact my system administrator but...I am the administrator 
>so that would be pointless. Now if any of you would have an idea of what I could 
>do, it would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah, the last thing I want to do is format. 
>The computer is a Compaq 933MHz 256MB SDRAM 60Gig HDD.....One thing that may be 
of 
>significance would be that I Installed a service pack and some patches that fixed 
>certain problems I had that were not pertaining to this...I installed SP1 and everything 
>ran fine for a whole day before this happened. Help. :)

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