I am working on an IBM Thinkpad T41 running Windows XP. The user downloaded SP2 and now receives this error when booting up:

Extended Information: Phase 0, Type 255, Code 8
Operation: Resizing Prior Partition
Partition Type: unknown
Phase: Resize Initialization
Error: INVALIDFS

Press any key to continue.

Once a key is pressed Windows loads and Rapid Restore copies files and says to reboot now or later. If you reboot now it cycles into a loop doing the same thing. You can elect to reboot later and work fine. The only reference I found on this was the following:

http://www.ibmnb.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=62926&sid=BKCEMW

however, it is in an Oriental Language, if any one can translate that for me I would really appreciate it. Otherwise, if anyone has a solution, that will work also.

What that says, roughly translated to English, is an old Confucious saying: "He who doesn't read forum FAQ or post anything even remotely on topic soon find out who JMI is".

I did read the FAQ's and even though this is not a coding question, I have found several answers to problems I have come across on this site. Did not see any other topic this question would fit under, so newbie it was.

Well, it sorta fits under "Off topic" you know. I moved it there now anyway, so no problem, I hope you find the solution to your problem.

That works for me. Thanks.

And who is that guy JMI anyway? Does he work here?

Regards,

No idea, but I have heard he's some crazy forum moderator who has real trouble managing access controls for forums and forum posts

Oh. That guy. Now I remember him.

Regards,

try http://babel.altavista.com/tr and choose simplified chinese to english.

Or better still, find the Systran program loose in the wild and have multiple languages translation available on your toolbar.

Regards,

Try also http://forum.thinkpads.com

Regards,
TOTEU