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how to boot safemode with cdrom?

lozina

lozina

Lifer
A friend of mine unloaded a laptop on to me and was hoping I can fix a problem he has. His computer can take hours to actually boot up (It sits on a blank screen same color as desktop with only a hourglass in middle forever, right after the Windows ME bootup splash screen completed. ) Booting into safe mode is fast and has no problems, but it comes with no USB and no CDROM. I would like to install some anti-virus/spyware cleaner/etc... tools to try and clean his sytem but without CDROM or USB support there's no way I can- stuff is just too big for floppy disks.. anyway to boot into safemode but with cdrom support?

Or any ideas how to determine what is causing the system to sit on that screen forever when botting normally while in safe mode, and get rid of it, without any new installed software? I tried unchecking everything in the Startup tab of msconfig.
 
As soon as the computer turns on, keep tapping F8. It will ask you what media to boot from. Select the CD-ROM drive. 🙂
 
I'm not sure if it works on windows ME, but have you tried using msconfig to disable all unneccessary startup programs? Or maybe you could select diagnostic startup under the general tab. This may allow you to start the computer normally in a reasonable amount of time.
 
There is no CDROM support in Win 9x/ME safe mode. Go to start > run > msconfig and uncheck the startup group. Disable the system restore as well. You can also check the device manager for 'ghosted' devices and remove the duplicate entries. Try rebooting to normal mode and see what happens.
 
Ok cool I forgot about using my Windows boot disk... I used that to go into the repair console and surprisingly it has USB support so I loaded all the tools I wanted off my USB drive using the command prompt in repair console. Now I'm running some scanners to hopefully kill whatever was causing that enormous boot delay when the system starts normally

Yeah I tried unchecking everything from the startup list in msconfig, it didn't stop whatever was hanging from starting up
 
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