Hello all,

Like many others, I'm also going through the "safety mode loop of death" with the windows repair utility saying that it cannot run in safe mode. I have a new wrinkle to add - although I do want to say thanks for all the useful information upto this point.

My situation:
I run the bootcfg /rebuild and remove the "/safeboot:network" from the OS line. I restart the computer and then see a blue screen with something along the lines of "there was an error and your computer must be shutdown to avoid damage" (I'm paraphrasing since I'm at work right now ).

So I restart, and do another bootcfg /rebuild and keep the original parameters (ie - I put back the safeboot part back in) and I'm happy to find (about as happy as I can be in this situation) that the computer does load normally - albeit back into safemode.

I'm 100% sure I'm using bootcfg correctly, it just doesn't seem to work for me.

On a side note, another poster made the note about installing a Windows XP CD with the same Service Pack this is currently on your computer. My CD is SP1, and I did upgrade to SP2 later on. I will try this once I find a SP2 CD, since it sounds like this will solve the problem.

So consider this my thank you / help me / I think I solved the problem message.