Solve : Restoring Access to Safe Mode?

1.	Solve : Restoring Access to Safe Mode?
Answer» OS Specifics: Windows XP Professional SP2 Ok, here are my problems. 1: Pressing F8 (repeatedly) during reboot does not LAUNCH boot menu. Nor does holding it down during reboot. 2: The BOOT.INI tab in MSCONFIG is misssing. The boot.ini file on my hard drive appears to be fine. Attempts to RESTORE BOOT.INI tab have so far failed. 3: My computer is a laptop, and thus has no floppy drive. The CD drive is currently broken, so I cannot use the XP CD to access the recovery console and attempt to rebuild my boot.ini (just in case that is the problem). So... with all this... I just cannot get to safe mode. I have tried downloading recovery console ISOs to install the recovery console locally, but none of the ISOs I have found contain winnt32.exe. I haven't been able to find what I need anywhere on the 'net so far either, been looking for hours. If anyone can help me here, I would greatly appreciate it.is there any particular reason that you need to access SAFE MODE?At this exact moment? No. But surely you can see that being able to access safe mode in general is rather IMPORTANT, yes? ^^I found this on Google. http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootini.htm It looks interesting...would it be possible for you to get hold of a usb cd-rom drive and boot from that? (providing that your computer's BIOS is new ENOUGH. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 22, 2008, 02:50:54 AM I found this on Google. http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootini.htm It looks interesting... First thing I tried, sadly. : / Thanks though. Quote from: programming_pat on June 22, 2008, 02:51:44 AM would it be possible for you to get hold of a usb cd-rom drive and boot from that? (providing that your computer's BIOS is new enough. Well, I would like to not have to spend the money on that if I can avoid it. If there w as something really important I needed to do in safe mode right now that'd be different, of course. ^^ But, at this point I am just trying to correct the actual problem, as opposed to working around it. Thanks though!Go to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter... Have your XP CD handy as it will ask for it. Let it run to COMPLETION and remove the XP CD and re-boot... Quote from: patio on June 22, 2008, 08:52:45 AM Go to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter... Have your XP CD handy as it will ask for it. Let it run to completion and remove the XP CD and re-boot... Erm, apparently you missed the part where I don't have a working CD drive. ^^;

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OS Specifics: Windows XP Professional SP2

Ok, here are my problems.

1: Pressing F8 (repeatedly) during reboot does not LAUNCH boot menu. Nor does holding it down during reboot.
2: The BOOT.INI tab in MSCONFIG is misssing. The boot.ini file on my hard drive appears to be fine. Attempts to RESTORE BOOT.INI tab have so far failed.
3: My computer is a laptop, and thus has no floppy drive. The CD drive is currently broken, so I cannot use the XP CD to access the recovery console and attempt to rebuild my boot.ini (just in case that is the problem).

So... with all this... I just cannot get to safe mode. I have tried downloading recovery console ISOs to install the recovery console locally, but none of the ISOs I have found contain winnt32.exe. I haven't been able to find what I need anywhere on the 'net so far either, been looking for hours. If anyone can help me here, I would greatly appreciate it.is there any particular reason that you need to access SAFE MODE?At this exact moment? No. But surely you can see that being able to access safe mode in general is rather IMPORTANT, yes? ^^I found this on Google.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootini.htm

It looks interesting...would it be possible for you to get hold of a usb cd-rom drive and boot from that? (providing that your computer's BIOS is new ENOUGH. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 22, 2008, 02:50:54 AM

I found this on Google.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootini.htm

It looks interesting...

First thing I tried, sadly. : / Thanks though. Quote from: programming_pat on June 22, 2008, 02:51:44 AM

would it be possible for you to get hold of a usb cd-rom drive and boot from that? (providing that your computer's BIOS is new enough.

Well, I would like to not have to spend the money on that if I can avoid it. If there w as something really important I needed to do in safe mode *right now* that'd be different, of course. ^^ But, at this point I am just trying to correct the actual problem, as opposed to working around it. Thanks though!Go to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter...
Have your XP CD handy as it will ask for it.
Let it run to COMPLETION and remove the XP CD and re-boot... Quote from: patio on June 22, 2008, 08:52:45 AM

Go to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter...
Have your XP CD handy as it will ask for it.
Let it run to completion and remove the XP CD and re-boot...

Erm, apparently you missed the part where I don't have a working CD drive. ^^;

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