Windows 2000 Pro

kpaulsen

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I have a windows 2000 Pro box SP4 that was set up many years ago by another party. Today the PC will not start up in normal mode, it's caught in an infinite startup loop. I can get into safe mode so I'm confident it's a driver issue. I had to do a hard reboot as it was locked up and I had left a USB stick plugged in so I think I think it may be some kind of driver issue.
Any ideas on steps I can take to resolve this?

Thanks in advance
 
Solution
It's more likely the harddrive. Start up in save mode, right click on the c drive in explorer / properties / tools and run the error checking. If you have data on the disk, copy it to another disk or stick first.

kpaulsen

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Okay, data copied, I've tried to run chkdsk from the C/properties/tools but I get a "Windows was unable to complete the disk check. I then tried via cmd prompt and got a access denied. I seem to remember this can be run at startup, is this my next option?