Hang on startup due to Ultrabay disk check

I've had trouble ejecting the superbay hard drive. It's less useful if it's not hot-swappable, but I can live with powering off and switching between it and the dvd. A program installer I have on the hd stopped working, so I figured I'd do a disk check, which Vista scheduled to do on startup.
Now, when the ultrabay hd is in and the T400 starts up, I get the lovely blank black screen. Since the hard drive is active most of the time, I let it go for an hour or so, at which point the hd activity stops and the only indicator lights on are wi-fi, the 'Z' in a circle and the plug power icon.
If the ultrabay drive is not in during startup, Vista boots normally, so I'm guessing it has to do with the scheduled disk check. If so, how can I turn it off? If it's not the disk check, what could it be? And what's a good alternate program for checking disks & defragmenting?
Thanks!
T400 | Vista 'meh' 64| T9300 | 4gb | 7200rpm hd x2

Click the "start" button, type msconfig and press "enter". Click the "Startup" tab and find the entry that has "chkdsk" in it, uncheck it. Restart your Thinkpad. After restarting you will receive a message in the lower right corner aout some startup programs being blocked. You will need to click the icon that has the ballon with that message and have it show you the blocked program, one of them will be msconfig, allow it to run. When msconfig runs check the box that says "Do not notify me" and click next.
Vista makes it difficult.
T60 2623-D7U, 3 GB Ram. Dual boot XP and Linux Mint.
T400 2765-T7U Windows 7
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Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
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>
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First of all, does your Laptop meet all of the minimum requirements
of the install of LabVIEW? Do you have
sufficient RAM, do you have a supported OS, and do you have a capable video driver? All of these things make a difference! Additionally, there is a way to set the NI
services (or any service for that matter) to run when needed as opposed to
automatically running on startup. To do this, open the Windows Control Panel,
and click on “Administrative Tools” and open “Services”. From here you can start and stop services, as
well as configure them to run in “manual” mode which will start them only as
needed.
There should never be a problem with uninstalling NI
Software due to NI services running. The
proper way to uninstall LabVIEW is to first shut down all NI programs you have
open. Then, go to control
panel->add/remove programs->national instruments software and choose “change”. From here you can uninstall LabVIEW by
clicking on it and selecting “remove”.
Installing 8.0.1 should have had no effect on the NI services or LabVIEW. Did you reboot and mass compile the LV directory after the
8.0.1 install? It’s also important to note
that all of the LabVIEW 8.0 installers are the same. The version of LabVIEW that is installed
depends on which version is “unlocked” based on the serial number you enter
when activating LabVIEW.
It is entirely possible that for some reason one of the NI
services is hanging, or behaving poorly.
I think you were on the right track with starting debugging from that
point. We could also try to determine
which exact service is causing problems, then determine which software that
service installed with and troubleshoot from there.
I assure you that many people are running with all sorts of
NI software combinations on their machines without these problems. If there is some problem with an NI service
on your machine, installing a new version of LabVIEW might not make a
difference anyway. I do apologize that
this has been causing you problems, and I thank you for the debugging completed
so far. I hope this information proves useful -- please let us know how things
go!
Travis M
LabVIEW R&D
National Instruments

Sever hangs during startup with registration of some servlets

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          The same servlets go OK in windows environment.
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I tried doing the verbose boot and a lot of codes started showing up. I don't really know how to read stuff like these but I've read 3 shutdown causes or something like that. And it disappeared to blue then grey screen then it asked for language selection, I clicked english, then it says, if you want to fix your disk click DISK UTILITIES in the Utilities options. I did and still, didn't see anything listed on the First Aid tab.
I'm just wondering, what will happen if I reinstall my OS? I'll lose all the saved files and datas right? Is it like restoring it to factory settings and will just bring my laptop back to normal? I don't have any back ups for my file, is there any way that I could get some even if I can't access my desktop?

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When I try to start firefox it does nothing. Via CLI it does the same - nothing. It just sits there and appears to be hung up. No pid, nada.
Deleted ~/.mozilla and tried to run firefox -profilemanager. Same thing, just hangs.
Tried to run firefox -v just to see if it return the version -no joy. Hangs.
no locks present and did a killall firefox before each attempt.
Uninstalled via yum and reinstalled via yum. Same.
Is there a log file I can view to try to determine whats hanging upon startup?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
<b> To Enable SafeMode </b>
*You can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the '''Shift''' key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
* Or open the Help menu and click on the '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' menu item while Firefox is running.
*''Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"''
If it works in Safe Mode and in normal mode with all extensions (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) disabled then try to find which extension is causing it by enabling one extension at a time until the problem reappears.
Close and restart Firefox after each change via "Firefox > Exit" (Windows: Firefox/File > Exit; Mac: "Firefox > Quit Firefox"; Linux: "Firefox/File > Quit")
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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