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Dual Booting - Win 98 SE Safe Mode

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by curtkiesling

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I am dual booting Win 2000 and Win 98SE. I have recently added a LCD monitor and I need to boot into Win 98 via Safe Mode to change my video settings. I've tried several times to get to the Win 98 Safe Mode by pressing F5. I was wondering if there is any other way to get to Safe Mode in the Win98 O/S?
Thanks!

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by mcoumans

After reboot select win98 and hold down the CTRL key. You will enter the bootmenu where you can select Boot in Safe mode.

Marc Coumans

by thechas

For Windows 98, I thought that the startup options key was F8.

Alternately, boot from a floppy, and manually start Windows in safe mode.
Switch to the C: drive, (c: enter)
Switch to the Windows folder, (cd \windows)
Type in (win /d:m press enter)

This should boot you into safe mode.

Another work around, would be to re-connect your old monitor,
Boot up,
delete the monitor from device manager,
shut down,
connect the new monitor.

That way, windows will start in default settings.

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