Will the Floppy Disk work in Safe Mode?

[spaceman_333]

Howdy,

We can only get this computer to boot in Safe Mode. Have run
scanreg /restore and scanreg /fix. This fellow desperately needs to copy some files from this computer.

Can we bootup in Safe Mode and copy these files to a floppy disk?

Thank you,

Spaceman

[Mike3d]

yep it sure will

good luck mike

[spaceman_333]

Hi Mike,

Is it extremely slow?? Nothing seems to be happening....except for the green light on the FDD.

??

SM

[104456]

Another option would be to install it as a slave drive on a working system and copy them across as normal.
Any particular reason why it wont boot properly?

[spaceman_333]

Hello johnking,

I did as you suggested and "BootFailSafe" was not there.

I did go into the BIOS and disable the onboard LAN, onboard audio, onboard modem, and CDRW. Booted in Safe Mode and ran Scandisk and looked for your suggestion. Closed to a "restart" and Windows has booted normally.

Now to find the culprit.

Thanks to you and Mike for your help.

Spaceman

[spaceman_333]

Hello,

I disabled the on-board audio and everthing went back to normal except that there was no sound, naturally. I had an Esoniq 1370 - PCI 3000 sound card that came out of a Gateway 2000 computer so I installed it using drivers that I downloaded from drivers.com. Now there is sound...but it comes with a problem!!

The sound works with Windows sounds, plays audio cd's, plays downloaded music (MP3's). But, it keeps wanting to install more options---just before Windows98se opens on the desktop I keep getting this message box:

"The Creative SoundBlaster PCI64 driver cannot load MIDI waveset. MIDI waveset has been disabled."

Then I have to click "OK" for Windows to open. (This is as bad as the Logon password box!!) How do I get rid of this??

Once inside Windows, a tool icon for the mixer has been placed in the Task bar (beside the clock) --at startup--and will not go away. I uncheck it in misconfig/startup and it just keeps coming back. How do I get rid of this ??

In Device Manager: There are yellow exclamation marks at---
Creative Gameport Joystick. Under Properties this is showing, "This device cannot find any free I/O range resources to use (Code 12). "

Also at Sound Blaster PCI64 Legacy Device. "This device cannot find any free DMA resources to use (Code 12)."

And, now when Windows opens, the Task Bar will not stay hidden. It is being unchecked in Taskbar Settings by Windows.

I think this is it for now. All help and advice will be greatly appreciated!!

Spaceman