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Question

windows vista, always boots in safe mode networking, help?

Oct 7, 2012 6:10PM PDT

hi all, i have a friends acer aspire 5536 ruining windows Vista, it was slow and laggy, so i thought i would do a full spyware/malware scan etc, i tried F8 into safe mode with networking (so i could update definitions) upon restart it did not boot into safe mode, so i went into msconfig and select safemode with networking in there to boot from, however it still will not boot into safe mode, only now it tries to restart all the time, so i disabled restart on boot failure and now after it will not boot it shuts down, at the moment i am in vista recovery console, start up repair has no options that work for me, restore,repair start up etc, when i do a bcdedit it shows my c drive info and the windows safe boot option selected,
MY QUESTION is can i disable safe mode boot from this command prompt or does any one know another way to get windows to start normally and why will it not boot into safe mode?
hope there is help out there
regards
lee.

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Clarification Request
found this in another forum,
Oct 7, 2012 9:06PM PDT

but how do i get to the c: drive prompt, in recovery sonsole the drive is x:


you'll need to modify the boot.ini file. Checking the safe mode option in msconfig adds a /safeboot:minimal option at the end of the operating system line in the boot.ini file. enter the recovery console and type bootcfg /rebuild at the c:\windows\ prompt to rebuild a normal boot.ini file, or boot using another bootable CD that supports NTFS to edit the boot.ini file manually.

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Re: drive
Oct 7, 2012 9:14PM PDT

If the recovery console says the file is on the x:-drive, just edit that file.

Kees

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c: drive is boot though?
Oct 7, 2012 9:51PM PDT

but that is not the boot drive, C: is will this make a difference? i am only on X: as this is the default for the recovery console

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Re: drive letter
Oct 7, 2012 10:02PM PDT

You must edit the file that is used during a normal boot (so the file from the drive that is booted from). It's important it IS that drive. It's not important how the recovery console CALLS it.

Kees

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cheers
Oct 7, 2012 10:04PM PDT

many thanks ill give it a go and let you know how i come on.
lee