w/7 won't go into safe mode!

[humblejohn38]

I have had to boot my acer pc by physically turning it on and off.The reason I turned it on and off manually was it was taking too long to install the windows updates. It would go to 15% and then stall! Now I get a message:

WINDOWS BOOT MGR: Error file\boot\bcd
status: oxc oooooe 96

I haven't the faintest idea what this means or how I can get my acer back into safe mode. Can u help? Thanks in advance.

[Steve R Jones]

Did you let it sit on the 15% for a few HOURS?

I went straight to my favorite search engine and searched on-> WINDOWS BOOT MGR: Error file\boot\bcd

Found this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2004518