Need Help, Win2k
 

Ok, I have two hard drives, one master one slave, both with win2k. I updated my video driver on the master, and it's gone bananas on me. It boots fine, but won't do squat once it gets to my desktop. The size/font is messed up, and something else has it booting to the wrong video card. (I have two, one built in that I disable/remove, windows automatically picks it up after I uninstall it.)

Anyway, that's easily fixable if I can find a way to access my control panel for that drive. Is there anyway I can do that from the drive I'm working with now?

Thanks,
Matt

Try re-starting and getting into the BIOS, and then disabling the onboard video card.

Is there a way to boot win 2k in safe mode, boot holding down one of the F keys?

Booting in safe mode gets me no where. I think I updated the driver too soon. This is a fresh install that was working flawlessly, but I hadn't run any updates yet. The drivers most likely came out after SP 4.

Will try to disable on board from bios. Thanks

Also, you could try booting in safe mode, uninstalling the new driver, and reinstalling the old driver, if you still have it handy.

Bah, I'll just kill disk it and start over. I'm not losing anything but time.

My bios wouldn't allow me to disable onboard. Auto, or onboard only. I did disable/unistall the onboard in windows, but it always comes right back. However it always returns as the #2. Funny thing is the start up is not the onboard, and windows is. I'm tired of playing musical monitors.

Thanks for the help guys.

As long as you are doing it all over... instead of dual booting, why not use VMWare?

Dual booting? I have two separeate HD's. I heard something about that, but never have set one up that way. Haven't heard of the VMWare, care to share your expirence?

VMWare lets you create other virtual computers inside your existing running OS. I used it on a single P2-350 with Linux as the host OS (running on real computer) and Win2k as a guest OS (running in virtual machine). Great for when you need to test stuff on different versions of OSes, or other things that aren't compatable with eachother, like IE5.5, IE6 and IE7 if you do web development. As a bonus, older crashprone versions of Windows (95, 98, ME) run much better on virtual hardware. There is also a free vmware player that has all sorts of "appliance" machines available, like a secure browser (bsd based, etc).

The VMware server is free now, as is player, and you can get a short term eval of workstation for an email address. I'd recommend checking it out. Works good.