Argh! Now I did it. System only boots in safe mode

July 11, 2007

Working on this Photoshop problem, I decided to run "filemon" to see

what files were being accessed. My systems is set up with most user

file on E and the system on C. I noticed from filemon that the system

was picking up some system files on E. Now it turns out this PC was

dual booted with XP in addition to X64. When I did a system restore, I

got confused between systems since the hard drive partitions got

renamed. So I zipped up the "wrong" program_files directory, i.e. on

the E drive, zipped them, then deleted the files. After this, the PC

won't boot except in safe mode. I restored (unzipped) the files in

safe mode, but that didn't fix the boot issue. That is, I can only

boot in safe mode.

Given that scenario, what would be the next step? BTW, photoshop runs

under safe mode.

July 11, 2007

Re: Argh! Now I did it. System only boots in safe mode

Have you tried a System Restore?

<miso@sushi.com> wrote in message

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> Working on this Photoshop problem, I decided to run "filemon" to see

> what files were being accessed. My systems is set up with most user

> file on E and the system on C. I noticed from filemon that the system

> was picking up some system files on E. Now it turns out this PC was

> dual booted with XP in addition to X64. When I did a system restore, I

> got confused between systems since the hard drive partitions got

> renamed. So I zipped up the "wrong" program_files directory, i.e. on

> the E drive, zipped them, then deleted the files. After this, the PC

> won't boot except in safe mode. I restored (unzipped) the files in

> safe mode, but that didn't fix the boot issue. That is, I can only

> boot in safe mode.

>

> Given that scenario, what would be the next step? BTW, photoshop runs

> under safe mode.

>

July 11, 2007

Re: Argh! Now I did it. System only boots in safe mode

miso@sushi.com wrote:

>Working on this Photoshop problem, I decided to run "filemon" to see

>what files were being accessed. My systems is set up with most user

>file on E and the system on C. I noticed from filemon that the system

>was picking up some system files on E. Now it turns out this PC was

>dual booted with XP in addition to X64. When I did a system restore, I

>got confused between systems since the hard drive partitions got

>renamed. So I zipped up the "wrong" program_files directory, i.e. on

>the E drive, zipped them, then deleted the files. After this, the PC

>won't boot except in safe mode. I restored (unzipped) the files in

>safe mode, but that didn't fix the boot issue. That is, I can only

>boot in safe mode.

>

>Given that scenario, what would be the next step? BTW, photoshop runs

>under safe mode.

A repair install of Windows, then reinstall any applications that were in

the "wrong" PF folder.

--

Steve Foster [sBS MVP]

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MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

July 12, 2007

Re: Argh! Now I did it. System only boots in safe mode

On Jul 11, 5:09 am, "Steve Foster [sBS MVP]"

<steve.fos...@picamar.co.uk> wrote:

> m...@sushi.com wrote:

> >Working on this Photoshop problem, I decided to run "filemon" to see

> >what files were being accessed. My systems is set up with most user

> >file on E and the system on C. I noticed from filemon that the system

> >was picking up some system files on E. Now it turns out this PC was

> >dual booted with XP in addition to X64. When I did a system restore, I

> >got confused between systems since the hard drive partitions got

> >renamed. So I zipped up the "wrong" program_files directory, i.e. on

> >the E drive, zipped them, then deleted the files. After this, the PC

> >won't boot except in safe mode. I restored (unzipped) the files in

> >safe mode, but that didn't fix the boot issue. That is, I can only

> >boot in safe mode.

>

> >Given that scenario, what would be the next step? BTW, photoshop runs

> >under safe mode.

>

> A repair install of Windows, then reinstall any applications that were in

> the "wrong" PF folder.

>

> --

> Steve Foster [sBS MVP]

> ---------------------------------------

> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

That was my guess. I was just wondering if someone had a better idea.

If it was totally hosed, I would have done the repair right away. But

the fact it worked in safe mode made me wonder if there was a simpler

solution.

Here is another thought. I got a registry inspection program, and it

found quite a few errors. Since I'm doing a repair, would it make

sense to wipe out all the errors first?

July 14, 2007

RE: Argh! Now I did it. System only boots in safe mode

I did that once but I had a brainstorm that going back to "last best

configuration" would do the trick. Unfortunately, my computer decided that

the "last best configuration" was in Safe Mode and that was the end of the

line. I had a few other problems so I did a complete reformat. Good luck in

repairing Windows.

--

Denise

~ If you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're going.

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