I restarted a computer for what appeared to be a routine update for my spyware-removing program. When the computer restarts, it freezes at the Windows 2000 screen where there's a load bar at the bottom – the bar fills, but it never gets past that screen. If you wait long enough it will flash a blue screen with some white text on it (it goes too fast to tell what it says) before restarting and repeating the entire process all over again. When I attempt to boot into safe mode, the computer freezes at the screen before, the black-and-white part that says "Starting Windows..." and has a loading bar along the bottom. I have a 2000 Professional reinstall CD, and I've been able to install another copy of Windows in a separate directory on the same partition (I called it WINNT2, in contrast to the nonfunctional WINNT), so I can get into my computer and access my files. Can anyone suggest a method for getting my computer up and running again? Oh, one other thing – when I boot from my 2K CD and attempt to repair the directory, it only recognizes the new WINNT2 directory, not WINNT. Maybe this information is helpful.

I've tried searching the earlier posts, and this one looks very similar: http://www.computing.net/answers/wi...

Start in SAFE MODE (F8) and choose the option not to restart on error, this will then show the BLUE SCREEN and error codes...