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Windows 2000 Hangs on startup
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Original Message
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Name: Ali
Date: September 20, 2002 at 23:22:34 Pacific
Subject: Windows 2000 Hangs on startupOS: Windows 2000CPU/Ram: Athlon 800 |
Comment: Hi, My wondows 2000 hangs everything on startup. All the keyboards, mouse, everything gets frozen when the windows 2000 white bar comes at startup. It is not booting and I have very important data on my drive. I don't want to format it because there are alot of network settings inside. Anyone knows what might be causing this hang and how I can fix it. I have tried scanning the disk and used notron utitlities too. I will appreciate it if you can please post any solution immediately. Thanks! Ali
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Response Number 1
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Name: Taboo
Date: September 21, 2002 at 02:55:19 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)you can make a four disk set (win2k boot disk set), and then boot from floppy. If you have the bootable windows2000 cd-rom - then that might werk as well. You should be at least able to recover your data. You could try to do a repair of the operating system, from the 2k disk. if that doesn't work try reinstalling the operating system without formatting. And hey, if nothing at all works - get the four disk set of boot floppies, partition the drive and move your info over to the new partition with DOS. Then format the original c:. good luck
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Response Number 2
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Name: stew
Date: September 21, 2002 at 08:23:52 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Many W2K boot up issues are caused by device/driver conflicts, if you can boot to safe mode, take a look in Device Manager and see if you can remove or disable anything (modem card, etc), try restarting, then re-add one by one
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Response Number 3
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Name: Corinne
Date: September 21, 2002 at 10:50:36 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)But be careful!! I am having the same problem and I tried this, removing devices in safemode. But something terrible happened, so now the computer won't start in safemode either. And my boot discs don't work, so I have no idea how to solve the problem. Now my computer is totally lost. /Corinne
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Response Number 4
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Name: CleoTechtra
Date: September 21, 2002 at 11:12:37 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Corinne- do you remember what the very last thing you did was? you very well may be able to restore functionality, it's just a matter of retracing your steps...
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Response Number 5
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Name: David Wilson
Date: September 23, 2002 at 22:47:58 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Do not follow the advice shown in the previous posts. Windows 2000 without a service pack will try to boot from SCSI if a BIOS doesn't respond fast enough. I think Service Pack 1 fixed this but I would get SP3. You can boot into Safe Mode with Networking to download the latest SP.
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