Hold the F5 key right after the POST screen finishes.  I've tried and failed to get both Win 98 SE and Win Me to boot to safe mode with F8, but the old F5 from Win 95 worked for me.

>Kay;
>I have encountered a few computers that
>would not boot to safe mode by holding down F8 or F5
>or Ctrl. Here is an article with some suggestions:
>http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/howto/jump/0,24331,10064,00.html
>cut and paste the url if it gets cut off in this post.
>I beleive I used the dos command "win /d:m" (no quotes) to boot into safe
>mode.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kay McCoy" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:04 AM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Can't find Safe Mode
>
>
>> I am trying to boot a computer into safe mode so that I can run scandisk.
>> I can't get it to give me the startup menu.    I am running Windows 98 SE;
>> help tells me that I should hold down the ctrl key or the f8 key.   Have
>> done both; Windows continues to load
>
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