After applying windows updates to a server,i found that the server had rebooted into safe mode so tried various methods of forcing the server back to normal mode through the F8 prompt etc, even attempting a Windows Repair from cd but nothing seemed to work 😦

Fix1 :

In the end i ran “bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot” from the command prompt, rebooted the server and it came back up to normal mode.

The format of the command is a little different, the actual use would be

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot.

What is BCDEdit ?

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) files provide a store that is used to describe boot applications and boot-application settings. The objects and elements in the store effectively replace Boot.ini.

BCDEdit is a command-line tool for managing BCD stores. It can be used for many purposes. This includes creating new stores, modifying existing stores, adding boot-menu options, and so on. BCDEdit serves basically the same purpose as Bootcfg.exe on earlier versions Windows

Fix2 :

You can also try the other fix i.e go to start – run- then type “msconfig” then remove safeboot check box (As shown in the image below)