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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