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My grandson's Dell Studio 17 was showing a message that the hard disk (250gb) was in danger of failing. Dell said they would replace the disk and I asked if I could keep the old disk for a while to attempt to get the data off. No probs, they said! So I bought a 320gb disk and using Acronis True...

Andy Would be great to know how you got on. Why not let us know whether this offer of a solution worked for you? You are surely not the only person having this problem.

Hi Captain, and thanks for your input. Have tried this Method 2 in the tutorial and the PC starts to boot in Safe Mode (minimum of drivers etc and large display) and I get to my normal (enlarged) logon screen. However when I start to enter my normal password the PC then reboots before I can get...

Hi RAK, and thanks. The F8 way has always worked in the past. Please be aware that I have tried (many) times to press the F8 key before the Windows logo appears. It just does not work! Go figure. That is why I am asking for an alternative method that works.

Hi I am unable to boot (my Dell Studio 15 running Win 7) into Safe Mode using F8, however many times I try the PC still ignores my F8 presses and boots normally! On one of the threads there is a warning that if you are having trouble entering Safe Mode via the F8 method you should not use...

From the above posting: Change restart settings in safe mode. If your computer is stuck in a loop where Windows fails, attempts to restart, and then fails again repeatedly, restart your computer in safe mode and select the Disable automatic restart on system failure checkbox. For more...

Hi TorrentG, and thanks for such a fast response. Fortunately I use Acronis True Image so was able to recover my system partition. Sounds drastic but it worked, and I now know that I can count on Acronis!

I have been attempting to uninstall Avast 5 from my PC and Avast recommends doing this from Win 7 Safe Mode! I went into Safe Mode and it will not accept my password (I know it is correct!) and then restarts back into Safe Mode asking me for my password again. If I am slow in entering the...

Network Error (1208) Yvan Hi Yvan. I can see that this thread has been viewed many times, and you have come up with a solution, well done. May I say "Dank u" from an equally frustrated Windows 7 user.