no

 

while i've never dug further into the whole safemode thing, it may be no more than a simple batch file or something. but still, safemode in xp is still somehow connected to windows and you can't have one w/o at least partially initializing the other.

so then theoretically if windows totaly crashed, then you'd have no chance of recovering the entire computer as safe mode -- which uses DOS wouldnt work without its windows counterpart?

Yep. You have to forget the whole Windows sitting on top of DOS idea of Win 95/98.

 

You are using a component of Windows 2000/XP when you enter safe mode of sm command prompt. If things are really bad you have to use the recovery console to try to get the OS back up and running. Again this is a component of Windows.

5614, use the bootable disk and use Ghost to back up ur file, then Format, then reload the Windows

 

Albert

ok, this hasnt actually happened to me, i just wondered the theory incase it ever happened!

but how can you access Ghost if you cant load windows of safe mode? or will you always be able to load safe mode [dos] even though it is linked to windows

i suppose it will either create a new partition or else you'll need to use a 2nd hdd.

so then theoretically if windows totaly crashed, then you'd have no chance of recovering the entire computer as safe mode -- which uses DOS wouldnt work without its windows counterpart?

 

The only hope you'd have would be to boot it off of the Win 2k/XP bootdisk and copy your important files to another harddrive using the recovery console.

 

Or, if you're feeling adverturous, boot off of something like knoppix, and use that to copy the files over. Generally the recovery console is a pile of poo.