Firewire support in Safe Mode?

Question

Is there any way to enable firewire support for an external HDD while in Safe Mode?  My computer won't run more than a few minutes if booted normally and I need to find a way to back up a large number of photos and files before doing a complete reinstall of XP SP2.  I'm looking at the prospect of burning roughly 50-60 CD-R's in Safe Mode if I can't come up with another way to move these files.   As an alternative, I have an old 60 GB IDE HDD from my old Dimension 4550 with XP installed on it.  Can I install that in an open bay on my XPS 600 and delete/reformat it from within Safe Mode?  My current configuration is a Raid1 with 2 250GB SATA drives.

mombodog · Answer

You might try this method. Hopefully it will stay booted long enough to make the changes.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353/en-us

If this does not work, mount the hard drive in another PC as a secondary drive, then copy files you need.

Message Edited by mombodog on 06-10-2007 11:39 AM

wzsmith · Answer

You might also try a boot disk such as slax or bartpe, if you can get to another computer to burn them. Both are free downloads and should work for you.

mnvron · Answer

Great, thanks.  My old Inspiron 8600 is still chugging along (slowly) so I should be able to download/burn those files to try.

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Firewire support in Safe Mode?

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