Re: Laptop won't boot in safe mode

On 28 May, 16:02, John Jordan <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bornfree wrote:
Laptop won't boot in safe mode... what should I do? (Short of
reinstalling Windows XP)
It can boot with BartPE.. but I don't know what to do with it after
that point.

That depends entirely on what "won't boot" means.

If it's an unmountable boot volume BSOD, just run chkdsk from BartPE.

I get an error

"The type of the filesystem is RAW.
Cannot lock current drive.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
.

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