Do you have choice of booting into Windows XP or Recovery Console??

"Mick" wrote:

> I set my IBM laptop to boot into safe mode using msconfig. I am running
> Windows XP Pro, SP2. However, now when my laptop boots, it gets a blue
> screen and then tries to reboot. Same result using any of the choices using
> <F8> at boot up.
>
> My laptop came with Windows XP loaded automatically so I have no XP media.
>
> Any suggestions for ways to get the computer to boot, so I can remove the
> safe boot choice from msconfig (boot.ini)?

I can get into the IBM Recovery Tool -- however it appeared it wanted me to
restore and I don't want to lose any data.

"Dixonian69" wrote:

> Do you have choice of booting into Windows XP or Recovery Console??
>
> "Mick" wrote:
>
> > I set my IBM laptop to boot into safe mode using msconfig. I am running
> > Windows XP Pro, SP2. However, now when my laptop boots, it gets a blue
> > screen and then tries to reboot. Same result using any of the choices using
> > <F8> at boot up.
> >
> > My laptop came with Windows XP loaded automatically so I have no XP media.
> >
> > Any suggestions for ways to get the computer to boot, so I can remove the
> > safe boot choice from msconfig (boot.ini)?