Hi im extremely frustrated and a friend told me about this site so i hope someone can help.

I was recently restoring my computer when in the middle of it a power outage in our house caused my computer to restart. Needless to say it messed my computer up and so i started trying to fix it. It would boot normally or in safe mode but i couldnt see anything. No start menu or icons but i could open the device manager and run programs, even though it would give me a ton of bad image file errors...

So i used the xp cd to repair the partition (the one that keeps your saved stuff and replaces critical windows files). The problem is after the repair was done replacing my files and restarted my computer, it was still booting in safe mode. Now whenever i try to go to advanced boot options and force it to boot normally, it will always remain in safe mode, then XP disc says the rest of the setup process cannot continue in safe mode, and reboots. I dont know how to make it boot normally so it just keeps continuing to boot in safe, error, reboot. ive tried boot with last known good configuration and basically all the other options. Now i cant even get to the login screen so i have no idea what to do. Is there some other way of manually forcing it to boot in normal mode other than f8? oh and after i choose start windows normally, it gives me the option to press esc to cancel loading d347bus.sys. Please please help, its greatly appreciated.

All i need to know is how to get the damn thing to not boot in safe mode and it should finish the repair.

If you install new windows then what problem?

In safe mode.. would you mind giving us a copy of your boot.ini?
Paste into the Run window: control sysdm.cpl,,3
Startup n Recovery, Settings, press the Edit button.

I wouldnt mind at all but i cant get to the login screen. Right when the login screen should come up, it gives me a box saying the setup cannot continue, windows will reboot. It forces me to reboot. Its trying to finish the repair but it cant while its in safe mode and i cannot get it to simply boot in normal mode.

start the pc in safe mode, browse to the c drive you will see a directory will some strange character &$m delete it then open the registry and remove any reboot option that is listed in HKLM run section and HKLU run section. then do a new repair.

"I wouldnt mind at all but i cant get to the login screen." Even in Safe Mode? Then use Recovery Console to get boot.ini. It is C:\boot.ini

Yes even in safe mode it wont allow me to login because the repair process is trying to continue. What command do i type to view the boot.ini file in the recovery console?

Ok so i dont know how to view the boot file but i did find this out. In the repair console i typed bootcfg /list and it listed my os. It reads:

"Windows XP: home Edition"
OS Load options: /fastdetect /noguiboot /noexecute=optin /usepmtimer /safeboot:minimal

Soo this means that my boot file is automatically booting in safe mode even though i say normal. Like booting in safe mode is in fact normal mode with these settings right? So is there a way to edit that manually so it doesnt have safe mode at the end of it?

Edit the Boot.ini File
To view and edit the Boot.ini file:
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
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Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
3. Under System Startup, click Edit.