Can't boot into safe mode? Why?

[ingeborgdot]

Why can't I boot into safe mode? What could be the cause? My computer is new. No problems that I know of. I just wanted to check some things in safe mode but no go. Why???????????

 

[blodhi74]

what OS ?

 

[firerock]

What do you mean you can't? Did you pree F8? Does your keyboard have a F Lock that you need to press F Lock before function button works?

 

[ingeborgdot]

I press f8 and it goes into the screen of choices. I press safe mode and it starts to boot into safe mode but then jumps back into the screen of choices again. Win xp pro.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Man am I stupid. I listened to the advice of someone to do it through msconfig and check the box. Now all it does is go around in circles and I can't get back in to uncheck the dang box. What can I do to get back in??? Why won't it let me go into safe mode??

 

[daveybrat]

The bigger question is, what prompted you to want to go into safe mode in the first place???

Having problems??

 

[ManyBeers]

I had the same problem as you but I could boot to safemode wiyh networking so I thought I would take the same advice and go through msconfig and if I encoutered a problem I had safemode with networking as an out ,but when I made the change in msconfig I was unable to boot into any mode.hence I had to reinstall my op because I could not get to Windows like you now can't. Total bummer.


Mark

 

[imported_bajan]

Oops, looks like a reinstallation is on the horizon for you. :-(

 

[Andyman53]

Before you reinstall try some data recovery tools as Knoppix and/or BartsPE or Windows PE (UX). A google search should define some of those for you.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I did a reinstall ahhhhh and then reinstalled all software. I found out it was a software issue. Nero (InCD4) was the culprit. I had to spend a lot of time finding it but that is what caused it. I don't know why but it did. I uninstalled it and safe mode worked. I reinstalled and safe mode quit. I uninstalled and now safe mode works again. HMMMM> I don't have Nero any longer.

 

[bleeb]

try pressing f8 repeatedly when you start up.

 

[hotspurs]

Thank you for posting your solution! Uninstalling InCD helped me fix the same problem.

 

[racefan]

InCD not reading the INCD 's I created using the program is the reason I no longer install it. It lost me my second job contact list as it said the CD-RW was bad after saving a update to it causing me to loose all information on it. Never again for me.