Will not boot up in safe mode???

[Oldmans]

I am having a desktop at home which was running with Windows XP. Recently the hard drive of this system got crashed. Fortunately I have a backup of my entire windows on another hard drive. Earlier I use to simply restore my backup using Restore Disk and it use to work fine. Now as windows itself has Backup and Restore option, I tried restoring this time using this option but it gives me an error message saying “no files are found”.

Also when I click the properties of .bkf file there is no Security Tab which use to be there. Apart from this, this system is not booting in Safe Mode anymore. What can I do now? Please help.

[vshori]

As you said your backup files use to work fine when you restore them using the Restore CD, this time also you should try out the same. If windows built-in restore option is giving you so many problems, first restore windows in your old method, once done, create a new backup file and see if there is any Security Tab.