jammerbirdi

Okay the tribulation is over. I just came back to thank you last two guys for responding with the thumbs down to XP. I went to dinner last night resolved to come back, give up the fight, and just install XP. But when I read what you guys said about W2K vs. XP I decided to hang in there and keep trying. Probably wouldn't have done that if you guys hadn't chimed in. Sat down and looked at my original order from Dell. I knew I had to get DSL up or I wouldnt' be able to download anything that I needed. (Radeon graphics driver needed Service Pack 4 (129 MB) to run Windows 2000, etc. Stuff like tha

Well I've loaded Windows 2000 but I've hit the biggest brick wall I've ever hit doing this stuff. It's just one thing after another. The only good thing is that I can read the old drive and can recover my stuff. BUT... I can't get W2K to take a W2K driver for the NIC card so that I can get online via DSL. One problem is that all my support stuff and drivers from DELL (don't even go there, I already know) for reinstalling are for XP. But I've downloaded Windows 2000 drivers for my monitor and my nic card via dial up and I get some error code 259 thing when I try to install the monitor driver

Well I did that il wiccan but it didn't do what it was supposed to. That's okay because I went out and got another hard drive, a Maxtor 160 GB. I intalled it as the master and after I got it to take a install of Windows 2000 (a secret dream of mine has been to go back to W2k anyway) I hooked up the old drive as a secondary and suminagun... I can read my old drive. I'm copying the real important stuff to the new drive but I'm kind of up for strategies and suggestions about where to go from here. I HATE XP and I'm loving the fact that I've been able to load W2K on my new drive. One strategy of

Thanks. I actually found this last night and wasn't sure (denial) it applied to my problem. Looks like it does, no? Oh what a Saturday night I'm going to have. So I can copy the registry files to my laptop and edit them there? Wait a minute... I just read through this a little closer it says... It won't even let me into the Recovery Console. That's where I get the same blue screen message only without the physical memory dump message and ticker. Well, I'll keep trying it anyway.

Thank you both for the help and the concern. As far as a trojan... I think I did this one myself. Computer got bogged down and I did a very improper shut down. I guess I needed a nap. I don't know if it's just me but I've had xp pro since it came out and I've always hated it. I LOVED Windows 2000. Lighting fast, never ever failed me and I tortured that sucker and it was a P2 450. I'm not formatting this drive if I have to put it in a box for 10 years. I'll just get another hard drive. Thanks again, jb

unfortunately, it won't let me do that. I followed the instruction to the letter and after I press f8 to accept the terms i get the same blue screen and message... with two differences... 1. it's doesn't tick down the dumping of physical memory 2. the "technical information" string of codes... the last group is different... the other way it comes up.. 0xE1258000 When I try to do the repair install the last group reads 0xE11E1000 Oh woe is me!

Windows XP Pro will not start. It boots to a blue screen that says Registry Error and indicates that Windows was shut down to protect itself. It then advises me to restart and disable any new hardware or software. Then it says if the screen appears again to start in safe mode. I tried to start in safe mode it runs a list of drivers and it ends up at the same screen. I've run every hardware test everything is fine. Just this darn registry problem. And, of course, I don't have a back up of my registry. I don't have a windows ASR floppy (not sure I want one if my understanding is correct about i