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A friend of mine turned off his PC while the updates for Windows XP Home Edition were being installed on his Compaq minitower. Now he can't reboot. He tells me that he tries both starting normally and in safe mode but cannot do it.

I am going to his house to help him, and know that if he could boot in safe mode, I could delete the update. But without being able to start, and not wanting to use the rescue CDs he has and risk losing important documents on the hard drive - he didn't back up! -are there any ways to work around this problem to boot the computer without problems?

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Member Avatar for sittas87

hi there
so you can slave the drive in your machine and run chkdsk and registry mechanic.also by doing a windows repair he wont lose his data

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hi there
by doing a windows repair he wont lose his data

using a recovery disk he sure runs the risk of losing all,if he doesn't have the non-destructive recovery option !

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