# HD seems to have forgotten what it is

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**Created:** [December 6, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hd-seems-to-have-forgotten-what-it-is/39856 "2007-12-06T13:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hd-seems-to-have-forgotten-what-it-is/39856/10 "2007-12-06T14:58:05Z")

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My guess is you have some bad spots on your HD where critical windows files are located. Safe mode gets further because some of those files that it’s getting stuck on during normal boot aren’t being loaded.

[http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd](http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd)

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