Thank you everyone for your answers.
I will try booting off my XP Disc. I'm trying to fix the fact that CHKDSK
freezes on stage 4 after completing about 24% of the file scan. (See entry
on 01/24/10).
I'll also do some reading on both forums.
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Thank you,
B. Parker
"Jose" wrote:
> On Jan 25, 10:29 am, B. Parker <BPar...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm running XP Pro, SP3 with all critical updates installed.
> >
> > When I try to boot up into Safe Mode the computer reboots properly and
> > begins the process of loading Safe Mode, but after loading the driver
> > HPDSKFLT.sys, it goes to a blue screen, then reboots itself.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > --
> > Thank you,
> > B. Parker
>
> I went to that referenced HP support forums link and searched the
> forum for HPDSKFLT.sys and for lots of posts concerning the issue and
> found one post that does not concern the issue - maybe I am not
> looking in the right place. I certainly hope you have better luck and
> can find an answer.
>
> In th meantime...
>
> The thing about what you see on the screen when Safe Mode will not
> boot is that it is usually not the last thing you see on the screen
> that is the problem, it is what comes after it that you can't see that
> causes your hang or crash. I don't have an HP computer, or I would
> look and tell you what normally comes next.
>
> You did not say what kind of computer you have, if you can boot into
> normal mode or not, the issue that prompts you to want to boot into
> boot in Safe Mode (it should work), have you ever been able to boot
> into Safe Mode before, or any history - like a power interruption
> (pressing the power button while Windows is running).
>
> After some other reading, I would start by running chkdsk /r from the
> a bootable XP Recovery Console CD or from a genuine bootable XP
> installation CD (which you may not have).
>
> Do you need instructions to make a bootable XP Recovery Console CD to
> run chkdsk /r?
> .
>