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cannot enter safemode in win xp pro

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by five4all

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I am trying to enter safemode on xp. I had moved a partition on my hd and reboot option came up on screen. I clicked the reboot option and after posting I get this light blue screen that says autocheck program not found-skipping autochk. Below that says loading paragon engine which is my partition manager that I was using before I went down. Next comes blue screen of death(c000021a) fatal system error. Now I am trying to enter safemode and hopefully correct the problem. I have tried all keys and cannot enter safemode. Any help would be appreciated.

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by ajsdodd

1.Start the computer. The computer begins processing a set of instructions known as the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). What is displayed depends on the BIOS manufacturer. Some computers display a progress bar that refers to the word BIOS, while others may not display any indication that this process is happening.

2. As soon as the BIOS has finished loading, begin tapping the F8 key on your keyboard. Continue to do so until the Windows Advanced Options menu appears.

NOTE: If you begintapping the F8 key too soon, some computers will generate a "keyboard error" message. Please restart and try again.

by ajsdodd

PS... I dont think this will solve your problem though< I think you have damaged the Master Boot Record. How to fix this will depend on the other partitions and what you have on them.

by borginva

Depening on your system, try to enter your BIOS. Find where in STARTUP ot make your CDROM the main boot drive. Boot off your XP CD.
Enter recovery mode.
Type:
chkdsk /p
then when that is finished type
fixboot

See if this helps.

by borginva

Can you tell me why my answer did not help? You rejected it because of what reason? I may have other ideas if I knew why this did not work.

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