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Dia · 12-26-2007, 10:03 PM

Id like to fix something about my previous post. Go straight to the recovery console and skip this other stuff for a min.

Pop in the windows CD and boot to you cd drive, let windows start. When you get to the option to make a selection select R for repair. You should then ask for the recovery console which will look something similar to command prompt or dos. When it asks which installation you want to go to press 1 and then enter. You should now be asked to enter your admin password. After all that you should now be at a c:\windows> prompt. If you can make it that far then your disk isnt completely destroyed but are just missing boot up files such as ntldr, ntdetect.com or a boot.ini. Copy these from the windows CD using command prompt commands and then try and boot.

This would explain why you cant get into safe mode. Even though safe mode is designed to prevent conflicting drivers, malious software etc etc from loading by using defualt windows drivers and configurations it still needs system files to run. If your system files are corrupted or missing it wont work, in which you would result in using a command prompt interface since the GUI cannot load.

12-26-2007, 10:03 PM	#15
Dia Member (8 bit) Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 130	Id like to fix something about my previous post. Go straight to the recovery console and skip this other stuff for a min. Pop in the windows CD and boot to you cd drive, let windows start. When you get to the option to make a selection select R for repair. You should then ask for the recovery console which will look something similar to command prompt or dos. When it asks which installation you want to go to press 1 and then enter. You should now be asked to enter your admin password. After all that you should now be at a c:\windows> prompt. If you can make it that far then your disk isnt completely destroyed but are just missing boot up files such as ntldr, ntdetect.com or a boot.ini. Copy these from the windows CD using command prompt commands and then try and boot. This would explain why you cant get into safe mode. Even though safe mode is designed to prevent conflicting drivers, malious software etc etc from loading by using defualt windows drivers and configurations it still needs system files to run. If your system files are corrupted or missing it wont work, in which you would result in using a command prompt interface since the GUI cannot load.