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How long does it hang for? My home machine locks (i.e. the coloured bar at the bottom stops) for a good 30-40 seconds on this screen, but if you leave it alone it eventually sorts itself out and continues booting.
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How long does it hang for? My home machine locks (i.e. the coloured bar at the bottom stops) for a good 30-40 seconds on this screen, but if you leave it alone it eventually sorts itself out and continues booting.

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Everytime I boot into Windows 2000, it gets past the splash screen, displays the &quot;Starting Windows 2000&quot; window and promply hangs. What could be causing this?
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Everytime I boot into Windows 2000, it gets past the splash screen, displays the "Starting Windows 2000" window and promply hangs. What could be causing this?

Hangs on startup

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.