600x on the blink !!!!!

[kingman99]

Hi

Windows 2000 pro


Last night when l was running out of my office l was in a real hurry to catch a train and when l tried to shut dowm my IBM Thinkpad 650x it froze so l manually shut it down but when l tried to start it up again this morning l saw the following;

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (ox81423030, )xc0000032, oxc000032, ox0000000, 0x0000000)
Inaccessible boot device.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated, run CHKDSK/F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.


How can l check my computer for a viruse if l can't get into it??

What did l do this time and how can l fix it?

Thanks

Alan

PS One more thing in the easy-setup menu what icons should be in the 4 boxes? While playing with different combo's l forgot what l started with.

[joester]

I didn't read the whole article or procedure, but Microsoft has addressed this in THIS instruction.

Joe

[kingman99]

Hi

It wasn't for Windows 2000 pro, but thanks anyway.

Alan

[thinkpad adrian]

restart the computer normally, windows will prompt you that it is going to do a disk check. if all your importaint files are backed up,
go ahead and let it do the check, but be prepaired to re format and install your operating systim. if your data is not backed up,
i would suggest not letting it do the disk check, and trying to start it normally, or using the "last configuration that worked". (the disk
check will remove anything that is corrupted, even to the point that
all your files and user profiles are gone)
if it does start, back everything up on a removable drive/flash/cd.
what has probibly happend is a sector of your hard drive is failing,
(windows ALLWAYS writes to the same sector for register entries,
it does it in several different places, (for the registery bac-ups,) but they are allways the SAME places. when your registry becomes corrupted, and the back-up becomes corrupted, you get that
message. your computer hung up because windows could not write to the failed sectors any more. if you re-format the drive and re-install your o/s, windows will identify the bad sectors, and mark them not usable. but the problem will come back when another
area wears out. if your hard drive is old, i STRONGLY recomend buying a new one, you can get a 60 gig for about $50.
the hard drive is really the only part of your lap top that gets a lot of wear. cooling fans, and the display usually far out last it. that way you can be resonably shure it will give you years of trouble free service. good luck, adrian