Hello Francisco,

Wednesday, June 05, 2002, 7:01:21 PM, you wrote:

FA> My win 2k box was working fine. Before I went to bed I
FA> start disk defrag. In the morning the screen was black
FA> with the message something like I may have to find a
FA> windows 2k update. There was no way out of that screen
FA> so after resetting it appeared that the system was
FA> running through a scan disk because of not a proper
FA> shut down. The OS gets up to the Windows 2000 Pro
FA> starting up screen, with a small "task bar" on the
FA> bottom. After the task bar is full, of thick cursor
FA> like bars, the system just hangs for about a minute
FA> then goes to a blue screen and then aborts and
FA> restarts. It will keep doing this over and over. I
FA> have tried to run in safe mode and the last good
FA> configuration, but only to repeat the above
FA> description. Any ideas?????

FA> Francisco Archuleta

You should do the Emergency Repair Disk before defrag operation. Then
you can repair your system from this disk. In any case you should have
ERD from the first install. So you can restore OS from it. So you
should do BuckUp before any ambigiouse operation with win2k.


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