Windows 2000 safe mode not working

If the computer repair is performed by unqualified personnel, this may nullify your computer's warranty. For more information about how to Use Recovery Console, see How to use the Recovery Console on a Windows Server based computer that doesn't start.

Restart your computer. If you're prompted to press a key to start the computer from CD, press the appropriate key. If you have a separate driver file as described in step 1, press the F6 key to use the driver as part of Setup when you're prompted. If you have a separate driver file as described in step 1, press F6 again when you're prompted after the system restarts. The Backup or Restore Wizard starts by default, unless it's disabled. You can use the Backup or Restore Wizard to create an ASR disk set by answering All information on this computer in the What do you want to backup section.

For information about how to configure your computer to start from the CD drive or DVD drive, see the documentation that is included with your computer, or contact your computer manufacturer.

If Setup doesn't find a previous installation of Windows Server , you might have a hardware failure. Hardware failures are beyond the scope of this article. See a computer hardware specialist for more help or try the Hardware troubleshooter. If Setup does find a previous installation of Windows Server , you may receive the following message: If one of the following Windows Server installations is damaged, setup can try to repair it.

Use the up and down arrows to select an installation. To repair the selected installation, press R. To continue without repairing, press ESC. Select the appropriate Windows Server operating system installation, and then press R to try to repair it. If you can't resolve the problem by following the steps in this article, you can use the Microsoft Support website to find a solution to your problem.

The following list describes some of the services that the Microsoft Support website provides:. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note For a Windows XP version of this article, see Note By selecting Last Known Good Configuration, you can recover from problems such as a newly added driver that may be incorrect for your hardware.

This feature doesn't solve problems caused by corrupted or missing drivers or files. Note Num Lock must be off before the arrow keys on the numeric keypad will function. Note Some startup problems may occur early in the startup process. Note To disable a device in Device Manager, right-click the device, and then select Disable. Important Don't skip this step.

You'll need this information later. Note You may be able to determine more quickly which service is causing the problem by testing the services in groups. Note You may be able to determine more quickly which System. Note You may be able to determine more quickly which Win. Important We recommend that only advanced users or administrators use the Recovery Console. Note If Chkdsk reports that it can't access your hard disk, you may have a hardware failure.

Warning If you repartition and reformat your hard disk, you lose all information on the disk. Important For more help, contact your computer manufacturer or a Microsoft Support professional. Note ASR doesn't restore your data files. For more information about how to back up and restore your data files, see Windows Help. If you're restoring a server cluster in which all nodes failed and the quorum disk can't be restored from backup, use ASR on each node in the original cluster to restore the disk signatures and the partition layout of the cluster disks quorum and nonquorum.

For more information about how to back up and restore server clusters, see Windows Help. Note You must have a blank 1. If your computer doesn't have a disk drive, perform an ASR backup on the computer without the disk drive. Copy the Asr. Glad to hear, Good Luck.

Hope all goes well. As far as a anti virus program. Good luck. If there is a collection of irreplaceable photos on the computer make sure that you get them saved elsewhere. Maybe you could burn them to CD or save them on a usb memory stick. The latter are pretty cheap.. My first CD burner cost a fortune and was state of the art at the time.

Glad to see you got things running so easily. I was going to suggest that you removed the hard drive and put it in an enclosure so that you could access the data from a more modern machine using a usb connection. I think usb 1 was mainstream by the time Windows launched. Current machines have usb 3 hopefully backwards compatible. You are probably very attached to your old computer but it is a liability.

We don't know whether or not you kept up to date with computing since you last used the computer but things have moved on to the advantage of customers. Machines are incredibly fast and cheap compared to the early days. You must log in or register to reply here. Turn on or restart your computer. Click OK. After the memory test, the words "Starting Windows" will appear on a black background.

When this happens, press and hold the F8 key. I can't the huge safe mode icons, and there are so many things I can't do now! I'm so dang frustrated. This thread is locked.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Details required :.