[Thinkpad] OK, not a Thinkpad issue, but bear with me... Any ideas?

[RWM (Out of the Office)]

Keith Schawel wrote:

>On 2/7/07, RWM (Out of the Office) <RWM at rwmann.com> wrote:
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>>After a scheduled boot time defrag, my primary Compaq desktop has
>>developed a repeated black screen (could be blue; too quick to see or
>>read) reboot after performing an apparently successful "scheduled disk
>>check" from the partial Win2k splash screen.
>>
>>It POSTS OK, boots through BIOS OK, boots through the black and white
>>zipper OK, boots through the Win2K splash screen with blue progress bar,
>>then proceeds to the repeated "disk check has been scheduled" phase,
>>completes this successfully, then crashes.
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>>I have tried booting to "last known good configuration" and safe mode,
>>same outcomes.
>>
>>Any ideas on this?  I have the Win2K CD, so can try a recovery, if
>>that's likely to be useful.
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>>Yes, I have Ghost backups, but of course now have no client on which to
>>recover them.
>>
>>- RWM, from a Thinkpad...
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>Press F8 on startup, is there an option to disable automatic restart on
>system failure?  If there is, do it and you can see what the error actually
>is.
>
>Keith
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Keith,

I don't see that option at the F8 Startup Options prompt. 

That option does exist from within Win2K, but I can't get that far.

- Bob