smasher2256 Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hi,i have a Dell Latitude D630 running Windows XP Professional.I recently got a virus and in the process of removing it i needed to boot in safe mode. i tried the usual method of pressing F8 at the startup screen and selecting safe mode. it worked but when it got to the welcome screen it reset and then started up normally. i tried it again but got the same results. i decided to use the other method by runnig WINCONFIG and changing the settings in the BOOT tab to safe mode. now whenever i start my computer it goes straight to safe mode but it still resets and i can't go back to the normal settings. ive tried all of the setting in the boot menu but still no luck. im sure the reason it resets is because of the virus, but ive never had to use safe mode before.does anyone have any ideas of what to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Using the Windows XP CD boot up with it. Then enter recovery console [F12] and perform a checkdisk on drive chkdsk /f /rWorked for me a lot of times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoPro Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Using the Windows XP CD boot up with it. Then enter recovery console [F12] and perform a checkdisk on drive chkdsk /f /rWorked for me a lot of timesYep. The boot disk should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 You can also try these commands should chkdsk be in vainfixmbrfixboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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