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Not starting in safe mode
Name: Lucas B Date: September 2, 2003 at 09:15:36 Pacific OS: Win ME CPU/Ram: AMD K7/ 128
Comment:
My computer will not start in safe mode or normal boot up either. I have Windows ME and have two drives and it loads up in the second one, but I cannot influence the other drive from there. The boot disk does not work either. I know it has something to do with the vxd's because the monitor just packs up after the Windows ME white screen appears. Please can anyone give me some suggestions for things to try. Thanks
Name: JackG Date: September 2, 2003 at 12:47:48 Pacific
Reply:
Try booting in BOOTLOG mode several times. Then use an edit program to access the hidden BOOTLOG.txt file on the system drive and see how far it gets and what it was last trying to start, that did not finish.
Should give you a clue as to what is corrupted.
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Response Number 2
Name: Lucas B Date: September 2, 2003 at 17:44:31 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for your help. I managed to get move the missing files into drive c from drive d, so things are looking up. The system is still not right, but we're getting there.
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