comp won't start win2000 pro

[strickeasy]

spec's : shuttle ak35gt/ak35gtr mobo. 1700+ athlon chip. one 512mb ddr ram chip. nvidia geforce3 titanium 64mb agp video card. us robotics modem. 15g western digital hard drive "from my old comp". i put it all together and cranked it up, it worked but, when win2000pro was booting up it would throw up a blue screen saying i may need to do a virus scan and run chkdsk /f. i did all that and didn't find nothing. it still won't boot win2000pro. but i have win98se on same hard drive, it works great. what's up with win2000, all my good stuff is on there.

[K A Hall]

You can not take a drive running W2k from one computer and just stick it in another and expect it to work. Win98 works fine because of the difference in the file system. The only way I have been able to have any luck doing it is to start a reinstall of W2k on the first machine before removing the drive. Then on the first reboot, shut off the system before it reboots and remove the drive, and then install it in the new one, and finish the install.

At this point I would just boot off the cd and try to repair the installation.

[Tuf]

I think you are lucky you got Win98 booted with different hardware. I would put it back in the old computer back up what I wanted and wipe the drive clean. Stick it in the computer and install 2000 from scratch. K A Hall's suggestion may very well work and it may work well, but nothing beats a clean install on the hardware you intend to run.