Up to this point things have been going very well. However, this afternoon my Thinkpad, uncharacteristically, started to just power off! No exception, no blue screen of death, just simply powering off. Now mind you my Thinkpad and Windows XP has been running exceptionally well for quite some time so this really worried me as I am still in my conversion process.

I quickly decide to do another HD snapshot using EZGig II from Apricorn. I have been using this utility for a quite some time now and it has saved me more than once. Note, the software only comes in kit form such as their $49 universal hard drive upgrade kit - which I purchased.

So far booting into safe mode appears to be working fine, the registry looks ok and the HD seems intact.

I reviewed my software install log and noticed that I had recently installed Livescribe software on the 28th. Prior to that I had not installed anything since the 5th so I will have to keep an eye on that one.

I plan to run some more system cleanup and diagnostic utilities to see what is really going on...