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RE: Argh! Now I did it. System only boots in safe mode

 
 
Denise
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      07-14-2007
I did that once but I had a brainstorm that going back to "last best
configuration" would do the trick. Unfortunately, my computer decided that
the "last best configuration" was in Safe Mode and that was the end of the
line. I had a few other problems so I did a complete reformat. Good luck in
repairing Windows.
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Denise

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"" wrote:

> Working on this Photoshop problem, I decided to run "filemon" to see
> what files were being accessed. My systems is set up with most user
> file on E and the system on C. I noticed from filemon that the system
> was picking up some system files on E. Now it turns out this PC was
> dual booted with XP in addition to X64. When I did a system restore, I
> got confused between systems since the hard drive partitions got
> renamed. So I zipped up the "wrong" program_files directory, i.e. on
> the E drive, zipped them, then deleted the files. After this, the PC
> won't boot except in safe mode. I restored (unzipped) the files in
> safe mode, but that didn't fix the boot issue. That is, I can only
> boot in safe mode.
>
> Given that scenario, what would be the next step? BTW, photoshop runs
> under safe mode.
>
>

 
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