A31 BLUE SCREEN and here is my result

[IBM A31 & 600E]

first, i like to thank anyone with answers to my problem....THANK YOU !!!

here the story, i was using external firewire hard drives and i was formatting a 160gb drive....it stopped and my laptop was frozen. so, i held down the power button to reboot.

now i get a blue screen on startup, so i pick safeboot, reboot from last known good setting, etc. still comes up with that screen. i removed it from the dock so there are no devices attached except for the cdrom drives. i also tried less ram, 512 instead of 1gb. no luck.

i know the laptop is working, i just install XP pro on a small drive to test.

lucky me, have the extra drive in the dock and when it starts up, this is the error message i get:

FILE RECORD SEGMENT 12800 IS UNREADABLE
FILE RECORD SEGMENT 12801 IS UNREADABLE
FILE RECORD SEGMENT 12802 IS UNREADABLE
FILE RECORD SEGMENT 12803 IS UNREADABLE

anything can be done to save it or format and reinstall everything....which is a pain.

thanks for any help

i hope the drive is not toast

[IBM A31 & 600E]

thanks for the HELP, got it working