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

[RWM (Out of the Office)]

Well, booting to PartitionMagic 6.0 tells me "partition improperly 
dismounted", the option to "fix" is grayed out, does not suggest another 
remedy, and Symantec has taken down all the old online links to PM6 
documentation.



RWM (Out of the Office) wrote:

>David Ross wrote:
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>>>I've booted to the Win2K CD with no apparent adverse consequences.
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>>But did you run stuff for a while?
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>Yes, in the sense that I ran thru various Restore Console display 
>options - MAP, PARTINFO, TYPE c:\BOOT.INI, CHKDSK /P and the like - but 
>no, nothing that would smoke a PS.
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>>I replaced a PS last year with pretty much your symptoms, it would keep
>>rebooting after the disk check; if I left it off overnight  I could coax
>>it to run Windows for a while before a reboot  and when I ran Ubunto
>>live it would work for almost an hour before freezing up.  Changing the
>>PS fixed everything.
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>Certainly an option to consider.
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>>>Any reason I shouldn't try FIX BOOT and/or FIXMBR ?
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>>As Chris said, it won't help, but it won't hurt either.
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>>I think running some kind of diagnostic or non-Windows CD is the only
>>way you're going to figure out if it is hardware or Windows at fault.
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>Would you place the Win2K system file Restore in that category?  
>Partition Magic 6 boot disk?  If not, what as examples?
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>Thanks for your assistance and forebearance.
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>- Bob
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>>David
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>>>- Bob
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>>>David Ross wrote:
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>>>>This too is a classic symptom of a failing power supply.
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>>>>Try booting to a live linux distro CD or diagnostic CD, something
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>>that
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>>>>doesn't use your HD, and see if it freezes after a while.
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>>>>DR
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>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>From: "RWM (Out of the Office)" <RWM at RWMann.com>
>>>>To: "Thinkpad User Group" <thinkpad at stderr.org>
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:09 AM
>>>>Subject: [Thinkpad] OK, not a Thinkpad issue,but bear with me... Any
>>>>ideas?
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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
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>>or
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>>>>>read) reboot after performing an apparently successful "scheduled
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>>disk
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>>>>>check" from the partial Win2k splash screen.
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>>>>>It POSTS OK, boots through BIOS OK, boots through the black and
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>>white
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>>>>>zipper OK, boots through the Win2K splash screen with blue progress
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>>>>bar,
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>>>>>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
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>>mode,
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>>>>>same outcomes.
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>>>>>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
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>>>>to
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>>>>>recover them.
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>>>>>- RWM, from a Thinkpad...
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