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Message: 6590

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 27/11/2009

Subject: Safe Mode with Command Prompt

 

Sendy wrote:

Have you tried booting in Safe Mode? For example, on my desktop PC,
if you hold F8 (after typing the BIOS password, if you have one),
you get the Windows Advanced Options Menu.

In Safe Mode, it might be possible to rescue your files. It might
also be possible to restore your computer to an earlier time
(before the problems started) using System Restore.

Yus, Safe Mode does the exact same thing normal booting does, the
computer resets just as the Desktop appears.

What about "Safe Mode with Command Prompt"? You might then be able to copy files from your HDD to a USB storage-device.

First use the "cd" command to navigate to the folder on your HDD that contains the files or folders that you want to copy
(e.g. "cd my documents").

e.g. My desktop PC sees my USB memory-card reader as drive F, so to copy a file called "JSW-RR.TAP", I would use the following command:

copy jsw-rr.tap f:

To copy folders (and their subfolders, recursively), use xcopy /s.
e.g. To copy a folder called "MMJSW" to drive F:

xcopy /s mmjsw f:mmjswBBBBBB

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Dr. Andrew Broad
http://abroad.sqweebs.com/spectrum/mmjsw/

 

 

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