I got a blue box on startup that I had a page in a non paged area and XP had shut down for protection. I rebooted to last known good, and uninstalled everything that had gone on the machine in the last week. On reboot i got another protection screen, this time syaing that maybe there is a software problem, virus, or disk problem. I rebooted again to last known good, and ran a complete system virus scan, with none reported. Same protection screen on next reboot. Bue box said to run chkdsk, so on next boot to last known good I did. It said it would not run with other services running, and wanted to be done on next boot. Rebooted again, got same blue screen, rebooted to last known good, and chkdsk ran, with no errors. However on the reboot of the chkdsk, I got the same error, only now the last known good has the chkdsk utility in front of it, so I'm in a loop. Any of the safe modes locks at a file that starts io something .sys. (I can't remember the full name) I can't get back to use a restore. I've tried the recovery disk, however since XP isn't loaded, it only gives me the full reload option. I changed to a new hard drive, and reloaded the software, and put my original in a USB box, where I can get at all the files OK. I would like to edit whatever files causes the chkdsk to start, so I can get back to a restore point, and then go from there to diagnose the problem with the drive. Does anyone know what file or files I need to edit? Thanks for your help

First off, Last Known Good only puts you back to the last sucessful time you logged in, it doesn't remember a whole sequence of them. So once you've used it and logged in sucessfully, you've overwritten it. And if you want a stable system I'd highly suggest you copy off your data, wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. Otherwise this could come back to haunt you in the future...

Yes, I understand about the last known good boot. The trouble was, the last known good boot had the chkdsk in it's startup files somewhere, since the last known good was when the chkdsk was run. It's a stupid loop. By the way, I finally figured that if I deleted the chkdsk.exe off of the original drive, I might be able to boot up. This worked! When I reinstalled the drive it came up OK. I then used restore to go back 1 week. Everything is fine now. You do make a good point about hoseing and reloading though. I wanted to just install the OS, but Toshiba doesn't offer the option on the recovery disk. OEM OS sucks. I'll be backing up my data to the same disk I loaded my OS to, that way I'll have a ready to go backup, just by popping it in the laptop. Thanks Lucid. Kent