All of a sudden while I was using my laptop computer, multiple IE Explores started to open. I could not stop that from happening. Had to reboot the laptop. Since then I can not get into windows. I get the following message: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x8206D030,0xC0000032,)0x00000000,0x00000000) If this is the first time you’ve seen this STOP Error Screen, restart your computer. If This screen appears again follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. How could I get to CHKDSK, or check fr viruses if I can’t get to the C: prompt?! Any ideas, suggestions? I appreciate any help…I have tons of files and recent photos that I need to recover. Thanks…

Try booting into safe mode (tap the F8 key as soon as you hit the power button and keep doing it until you see the boot menu offering you Safe Mode as one of the selections) and then open a command prompt window and initiate chkdsk from there. You'll be prompted to reboot so chkdsk can run during bootup.

I forgot to add, if that doesn't work, slave the HDD to another machine running an NT based OS (2000/XP) and run chkdsk on it there. You can also do a virus scan that way too. You can buy adapters to plug a laptop HDD into a regular (PC) IDE cable.

Thanks CurtR...When I try the SafeMode I get the same blue screen and the same message. I have another laptop which is running Windows 2000. Can I slave the HDD to that laptop? Thanks, Joe-W

No - you'd need to use either the special IDE cable Curt mentioned with an ordinary PC or you could buy a USB enclosure (to turn the drive into an external). But you can also run chkdsk from recovery console - its slightly different parameters - use chkdsk /p or chkdsk /r (/f not valid from recovery console) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229716

I had have the same issue after I installed an auto update last week. Had to reinstall win 2000 and as soon as I reinstalled the updates again, same problem.