Windows 2000 continuous reboot

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Nicolas

Let me join the club.

I have been running a stable w2k pro pc for well over a year. I
needed to move the system to another box, so I removed the harddisk
and installed it in the other box. Now when it boots, it reaches the
Windows 2000 white progress bar and then kicks out and starts over
from the bios splash screen again. The continues indefinitely.

Note that I have discovered the identical problem with Windows XP. I
would have though by now that plug and pray was working well enough do
do these things.

I have tried all the safe mode options with no luck, and with the xp
machine, I tried copying a clean copy of kernel32.dll as per one of
microsofts suggesteds fixes (for a corrupted kernel) for this symptom.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nicolas
 
Nicolas said:
Let me join the club.

I have been running a stable w2k pro pc for well over a year. I
needed to move the system to another box, so I removed the harddisk
and installed it in the other box. Now when it boots, it reaches the
Windows 2000 white progress bar and then kicks out and starts over
from the bios splash screen again. The continues indefinitely.

Note that I have discovered the identical problem with Windows XP. I
would have though by now that plug and pray was working well enough do
do these things.

I have tried all the safe mode options with no luck, and with the xp
machine, I tried copying a clean copy of kernel32.dll as per one of
microsofts suggesteds fixes (for a corrupted kernel) for this symptom.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nicolas
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Moving a Win2000 from one box to the other rarely works. Sometimes
the following will fix the problem:

- Put the Win2000 disk back back into its old box.
- Boot up Win2000
- Using the Device Manager, replace the specific IDE Master
Controller driver with the generic Microsoft driver.
- Try the disk on the other system.
 
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