Dad has a Patriot "bookcase" machine. Win98SE, 400 Mhz Celeron. Used for Email, Word Processing and that is about all. Rather old but so is dad (86). Seems to me that something has become 'corrupted.
On startup all begins OK but then instead of normal Windows loading it defaults to SAFE mode - every time. Any clues please and advice on what error messages I should look for/ write down?
Biggest problem will be that dad has almost certainly not made any backup for a while so SOMEHOW I need to get his Outlook Express data files and MYDOCS folder off the machine. Normally I would do that with a USB memory stick - but they do not seem work in SFAE Mode. Feel sort of stumped. I am not adept enough to try removing the hard disk and doing a piggy back with that on another machine. I would be sure to goof that one up.
