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seeric · 05-29-2007, 01:19 PM

got a machine that i want to reformat. prob is, damn thing wont boot into safe mode at all. all it will do is start the boot up sequence and goes to the windows password prompt. i enter the password and it acts like it wants to start, but it then goes right back to that password box. i tried already re-ordering the boot sequence to do it from the cmos settings etc, etc, nothing is working to get the cd to start. i want to just reformat the drive and start over.

i think one of the things may be that some files for startup were damaged by this virus that it has. when the recovery starts it just stops and gets all hoooky koooky and goes to the windows log in box. not the one where you choose a user to start, but the actual admin password box that pops up.

oh well, any ideas?

05-29-2007, 01:19 PM
seeric .......... Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: .......... Posts: 41,917	command prompt when safe mode is not an option? help.... got a machine that i want to reformat. prob is, damn thing wont boot into safe mode at all. all it will do is start the boot up sequence and goes to the windows password prompt. i enter the password and it acts like it wants to start, but it then goes right back to that password box. i tried already re-ordering the boot sequence to do it from the cmos settings etc, etc, nothing is working to get the cd to start. i want to just reformat the drive and start over. i think one of the things may be that some files for startup were damaged by this virus that it has. when the recovery starts it just stops and gets all hoooky koooky and goes to the windows log in box. not the one where you choose a user to start, but the actual admin password box that pops up. oh well, any ideas?