Although I'm reluctant to recommend it, during the boot sequence, before you get the log-in screen, hit the reset button. Windows usually picks up that there has been an incomplete load last time around and should ask if you want to start in safe mode. The reason I'm reluctant to recommend it is because you are resetting douring disk activity which can, as you know cause consequences further down the line. Sice during boot up most of the disk access is reading and writing to cache it's not normally too disasterous to interupt it, the cache gets re-written at boot everytime so if the write is corrupted there it's not a problem. Paul -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mr Winskill Sent: 30 January 2008 19:06 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: [jhb] Re: Windows Hi Paul, Hiitin F8 has no effect, it just carries on to the login point. The only interruption I can arrange is Del key to access BIOS, where I can access Load Fail Safe Defaults, or Load Optimised Defaults. Gerry Winskill Paul Reynolds <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : > Gerry, > > >From your healthy PC, take a look at this, it walks you through the > recovery. > > www.myfixes.com/articles/wininet > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf > Of Gerry Winskill > Sent: 30 January 2008 18:19 > To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jhb] Windows > > > The last response prompts me to ask is there a way of accessin and > copying files, when Windows isn't working? > > Gerry Winskill ___________________________________ NOCC, http://nocc.sourceforge.net