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john
July 5th 04, 03:20 AM
After a power failure my pc will only boot up in safe mode.
What do i do to get it right ?
Thanks

Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email d
July 5th 04, 04:12 AM
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:20:29 -0400, "john" >
wrote:

>After a power failure my pc will only boot up in safe mode.
>What do i do to get it right ?
>Thanks
>

Can you reboot to normal Windows after the Safe Mode has finished, or is it
permanently stuck there? If you can reboot to standard Windows, that is
sorta kinda a standard feature. Though if it is on at the time of the
power failure, usually Scandisk starts. You can try disabling/changing it
via TweakUI.

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unimatrix001
July 7th 04, 03:58 AM
"Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email do 17 Right)"
> wrote in
:

> On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:20:29 -0400, "john"
> > wrote:
>
>>After a power failure my pc will only boot up in safe mode.
>>What do i do to get it right ?
>>Thanks
>>
>
> Can you reboot to normal Windows after the Safe Mode has finished, or
> is it permanently stuck there? If you can reboot to standard Windows,
> that is sorta kinda a standard feature. Though if it is on at the
> time of the power failure, usually Scandisk starts. You can try
> disabling/changing it via TweakUI.
>

Check your MSDOS.SYS file under the [options]for the line BootSafe=1. If
this entry exists, edit the file so that the entry reads BootSafe=0.

The MSDOS.SYS file is a hidden, read-only file. You will need to change
these attributes before you can edit the file. Use WordPad to edit the
file. Do not change any other entries.