When I reboot in secure mode, the PC freezes at the startup screen – I also noticed that the floppy drives light is on. How can I fix that?
When rebooting in secure mode with a Windows 98/ME PC, the following line is added to the file c:\msdos.sys: BootWarn=0 This line Disables the safe mode boot warning message and the startup menu (which would sometimes be displayed when the PC is turned off without a proper shutdown). It seems that adding this line causes problems with some PCs, mostly Intel Celeron running Windows ME. The only solution I found is not to add this line in msdos.sys. A check box labeled “BootWarn” was added to the Security tab in setsurf. If you check this value, the line will not be added. If you have this problems, you will have to go through a few steps before being able to get to Windows: 1 – Find a boot disk. Reboot with that disk. 2 – The file c:\msdos.sys is usually set to hidden and read only. From the DOS prompt, type the following command: c:\windows\command\attrib c:\msdos.sys -h -r 3 – c:\windows\command\edit c:\msdos.sys 4 – Remove the line BootWarn=0 and save the file. 5 – Remove the disk an
