Well, I woke up this morning, felt around for my shoes, and went to school. After school, though, I come back and Win2K Professional just doesn't work any more.

It does the whole BIOS thingo, gets to the 'Windows is loading' part, with the horizontal boxes, the bar goes across them to say it's loading, and then it just hangs there. I've tried repairing the installation, but it dooesn't help at all. Safe mode and debugging mode don't do anything, either does command prompt- they all just hang at exactly the same spot.

I really, really, really don't want to have to reformat because there's so much stuff I can't afford to lose (me not having a CD burner and me being stupid enough not to bother partitioning).

It's a:
PentiumIII 550E, 128MB, 12GB Seagate, 48X CD, clean install of Win2000 Professional.

If you re-install win2000 from a win2000 install cd it should keep all your data and program files stuff. If you're worried about loosing stuff you could whack a dos boot disk in it and copy anything you need to another directory At the command prompt.. I just hope you're not using NTFS instead of FAT16/32

Kayne

[ 05-04-2001: Message edited by: Kayne ]

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Originally posted by Kayne:
I'd stay well away from system recovery disks myself! I sure-fire way of loosing everything.
[ 05-04-2001: Message edited by: Kayne ]

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Eh.., poor wording on my part... meant system disks that you create under the isntallation.

I eventually discovered that it's a hard disk problem, not really a driver issue or any shafted software. I got it to boot from the CD and then messed around in the Setup Windows options.