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Gdetrailer
Feb 13, 2016Explorer III
Gene&Ginny wrote:Gdetrailer wrote:Booting in safe mode occurs after reading the BIOS and before the full Windows boot. Safe mode only loads a fragment of the full OS. Many times that will allow some recovery unless the entire disk became encripted. That was the reason for asking if the OP could get to safe mode.
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For Pete's sake.. The OP has ALREADY SAID it blue screens when booting the OS......
Umm.. NO, not correct.
NT based systems LOAD EVERY NEEDED DRIVER INTO MEMORY (IE "basic" drivers). This happens BEFORE the GUI loads (Graphical User Interface or "desktop").
"Safe mode" is nothing more than booting to a basic set of Windows drivers, WITH A GUI.. The problem is with Malware can easily REPLACE the GUI with a FAKED "blue screen of death".
From Win "ME" and up, you can not even load a "DOS prompt" without having to LOAD ALL the basic windows drivers from that hard drive..
The reason? Simple, DOS does not recognize a NTFS partition!
XP with a little playing around you COULD get it to install to a FAT32 (DOS recognizable) partition.. Win7 and up you cannot force to install to FAT32.
The ONLY way to fix the OPs PC is to BOOT from another BOOTABLE source like the Windows recovery DVD, Bart PE, Linux or another PC..
Windows Recovery DVD uses what is called a Preinstallation Boot Environment (AKA "PE"), this IS the only way you can access the drive without having the malware run.
PE is the NT version of DOS (Command line access).
Barts PE is a little nicer to work with since it adds a GUI to the mix.
You cannot and will not be able to fix via Safe mode because the HACKERS are smart enough to BLOCK SAFE MODE.
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