Gah

My laptop's refusing to load correctly right now, I was wondering if anyone can help me out.

What I Did Wrong: Manually turned off the power in the middle of the shutting down thing cause I was impatient and had class to get to

Symptoms: The computer turns on, gives me a choice of whether to run Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Network, Last Working Settings, or start-up normally. No matter what I choose, it only loads for a little bit before I get a blue screen with an error message. The error is UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME and the error screen lasts nearly a full second, with all its text, before going back to the screen asking me which mode to start up. I found this page on IBM's support site: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q297/1/85.asp&NoWebContent=1

The second parameter is not what is indicated on that page as indicative of a damaged file system.

I have access to the BIOS set-up screen, but I am clueless as to what to do there to fix things.

I am running Windows XP on an IBM Thinkpad 30.

I missed the closing of the help desk at 4 pm because said class that I was rushing to has a prick for a teacher that pushes his 2 hour lecture to the limit, even on Fridays.

Anyway, so anyone have an idea that could help me out?

It seems to me like the file system is corrupt, try the start-up disk option and choose repair like it said, if you dont have any start-up disks, barrow some and repair it:

<H3>Damaged File System</H3>
If the second parameter (0x<VAR>bbbbbbbb</VAR>) of the Stop error is 0xC0000032, then the file system is damaged.

If this is the case, restart the computer to the Recovery Console, and then use the chkdsk /r command to repair the volume. After you repair the volume, check your hardware to isolate the cause of the file system damage.

To do this, use the following steps:

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[*] Start your computer with the Windows startup disks, or with the Windows CD-ROM if your computer can start from the CD-ROM drive.
[*] When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option.
[*] If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
[*] Type the administrator password when you are prompted to do so.
NOTE: If no administrator password exists, press ENTER.
[*] At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is installed, type <KBD>chkdsk /r</KBD>, and then press ENTER.
[*] At the command prompt, type <KBD>exit</KBD>, and then press ENTER to restart your computer.For additional information about how to use the Recovery Console in Windows XP, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
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As for the teacher I cant help you there, I had a teacher like that also, Boomer, man every day right to the bell with his lectures and lame labs. good luck.

you didn't need to copy/paste part of the page i already looked at, with the big fonts and all. Especially when i went through the if then clause and saw that the second parameter was in fact not 0xC0000032.

I'm trying the start-up disk as soon as I can find it.

Oopsie.

The only thing that would possibly work is manually fixing the error, or using their repair utility, as Omega said.

About all I can do is tell you what happened.

Windows was unmounting the drive (which it should have a backup boot record of ... but doesn't) and you stopped it durring that process ... not a good idea, this is what causes corruption (most times).

However, when you restarted you should be able to run with 'last known good configuration' if not, they're sloppier then I thought.

Also, I'm just wondering ... but are you sure you don't have a ThinkPad 300 and not a ThinkPad 30?

(Otherwise, sorry to hear this, man. It blows monkey chunks. And I was having a great coversation with a CS friend of mine earlier on how MS doesn't manage memory or do garbage collection properly ... hmm, not that this is a garbage collection issue.)

It's a T30. Anyway, I talked to a few more people on campus, apparentally this problem is fairly frequent, and the start-up disk helps everything, but the school decided to withold the start-up disks from the students getting laptops, I guess to cut down on piracy or something. Therefore, in order to get a start-up disk, I have to manually go to the help desk (closed early today and all day saturday) or find someone with one. I am in the process of IMing everyone I know on campus right now...

For the most part I haven't had too many problems with the T30, its graphics have been more than acceptable, especially for a year and a half old laptop. But bear in mind, I'm not truly a computer person. I don't understand a thing about how the things really work.

Oh, it's a T30 ... thats different then a ThinkPad 30 (I didn't notice you wrote T before, meaning the T series ... sorry)

Anyway, if all you wanted was a startup disk I can make one and send you the contents in a zip file if you like ... it would take five minutes ... maybe (Also, the best startup disc is Windows Millenium)

But if you grab one tomorrow everything is solved, yeah? ... next time you boot up make one, I suppose.