I'm seeing very little disk activity but there is some. It's been about 20 minutes. The normal power on/off does nothing but I could switch it off at the power supply. Perhaps I should just let it do it's thing till morning or kill it at the power supply.
well that was interesting... Powered off and on selected normal windows rather than safe mode, it gave message 394 of 394 then went back to preparing to configure for a minute or so it's up now but I'm not sure where we are LOL