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Trouble booting into Start Mode?
Asus P4C 800E Deluxe, Intel P4, 3.2 with 1024 Kingston Memory.
I would like to be able to boot into safe mode because I want to be able to defrag from there - and because I may need to some day. As soon as the bios info comes up and the memory is checked, I start hitting f8. Eventually I get a box which asks whether I want to boot from a floppy, my regular hard drive, or a CD (in that order). I choose the regular drive and it proceeds to boot and function in the normal way - not in safe mode. Is there a trick? Am I doing it at the wrong time in the cycle? TIA Louise |
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yup, you need to keep tapping F8 just before the OS starts to load or else
as you have found, tapping in earlier brings up the one off boot menu. cheers "Louise" wrote in message .. . Asus P4C 800E Deluxe, Intel P4, 3.2 with 1024 Kingston Memory. I would like to be able to boot into safe mode because I want to be able to defrag from there - and because I may need to some day. As soon as the bios info comes up and the memory is checked, I start hitting f8. Eventually I get a box which asks whether I want to boot from a floppy, my regular hard drive, or a CD (in that order). I choose the regular drive and it proceeds to boot and function in the normal way - not in safe mode. Is there a trick? Am I doing it at the wrong time in the cycle? TIA Louise |
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On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:53:04 +0100, "Ayoub" wrote:
yup, you need to keep tapping F8 just before the OS starts to load or else as you have found, tapping in earlier brings up the one off boot menu. cheers Just holding it down works too! Cheers, Guy ** I may not be perfect, but I'm ** English, and that's the next best thing! |
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Or, if your running XP StartRunmsconfigBoot.ini then put a tick in the
/SAFEBOOT box. Next time you restart it will start in safe mode. Remove the tick to start as normal. -- *****Replace 'NOSPAM' with 'btinternet' in the reply address***** "Louise" wrote in message .. . Asus P4C 800E Deluxe, Intel P4, 3.2 with 1024 Kingston Memory. I would like to be able to boot into safe mode because I want to be able to defrag from there - and because I may need to some day. As soon as the bios info comes up and the memory is checked, I start hitting f8. Eventually I get a box which asks whether I want to boot from a floppy, my regular hard drive, or a CD (in that order). I choose the regular drive and it proceeds to boot and function in the normal way - not in safe mode. Is there a trick? Am I doing it at the wrong time in the cycle? TIA Louise |
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On Sun, 16 May 2004 23:01:12 -0400, Louise wrote:
Thanks everybody - I felt kind of stupid posting this but I'm glad I did! Louise, Never feel stupid asking for help. Take care. Cheers, Guy ** I may not be perfect, but I'm ** English, and that's the next best thing! |
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