On booting my win Me it gets to the safe mode screen, which is frozen on choice #3 safe mode, ; if I hit F5 or shift and F8, only choices possible, it just goes to a flashing CURSOR(-) and never boots. Happened after I was downloading a driver from an oem card reader at Idotconnect. Is it a virus and is it fixable without a full restore? I can't download fixes to that computer cause it won't even boot. Thanks for any help. ......... Thanks to street1: I discovered the problem; the reason it would not boot past the safe mode screen was that my keyboard was not plugged in all the way so it never received the reply to boot in safe mode; when  plugged in, it booted fine; sorry for taking your time.A NONDESTRUCTIVE reinstall may help. :-?

The below is a read me.Read it then proceed.Good Luck!

Go to the 4th link---> Smart Computing Article-Reinstall Windows ME

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=nondestructive+windows+m.e+reinstall+with+boot+disk&spell=1u can also TRY a repair on the sys from the os diskSo the problem is fixed?

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