The boot process can be traced in a number of ways. The starting is always the same however. By entering Safe Mode as the initial Windows logo appears, a menu will be displayed.

• Option 2 of the menu allows for the tracing of the boot process, with the trace output being stored in a hidden file BOOTLOG.TXT . This file can be seen with edited with the edit command

  edit bootlog.txt

• Option 4 will permit the boot process to be single stepped. This allows for each stage of the boot process to be displayed as it occurs. It is very useful if the boot process fails before anything is written in BOOTLOG.TXT
• Option 3 allows for bringing up the system in SAFE mode from which different procedures can be invoked.