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Hello Guys and Girls,

I have an IBM ThinkPad which is running Windows 2000. The other day I foolishly ran CHKDSK when I really didn't need to. After that, when starting-up the machine all I get is a Stop Error message and the machine won't continue booting-up at all. In order to troubleshoot, the screen tells me to do things which need the machine to be up and running, which it can't do of course. I don't have a manual or boot disk.

I would be very grateful if anyone has constructive suggestions or a solution for my problem.

Thanks in advance.

Donovanjose.

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hi, try hitting f8 on boot up and see if you an get to safe mode to do what it telling you to do

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Thanks for that caperjack. The machine went to a new screen and a number of files scrolled up, however the Stop Error message came back and no other choices were given to me. Any ideas? Love your picture.

Donovanjose

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hi,i would run chkdsk again ,make sure not to interrupt it you can get files to create a win2000 boot floppy at http://www.bootdisk.com/

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