Windows 2000 hang on boot up at "config\system"

Kaustav

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Feb 15, 2000
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Hi,
I just installed Beta USB drivers for my USB Creative Labs Web Cam II. After I rebooted Win2K, the PC hangs on boot up. Win2K gets to the stage where the white bars appear at the bottom of a black sreen. Three bars load and the system just hangs with no hard disk activity. I tried to reboot in safe mode and in safe mode with command line and also last good configuration (or whatever that boot option is called) and nothing. When booting in safe mode the following stages are loaded successfully:

ntaskrnl.exe
hal.dll
bootvid.dll
config\system

and then is hangs. I did not create a ERD when I installed Win2K.

How can I recover my system? Unfortunately this happened three days after I converted my Win2K hard drive to NTFS so I cannot even access the unbacked up data from Windows 98 anymore. Is there an application on Win98 which will allow me to read an NTFS drive?

Anyway advise from anyone would be much appreciated.

Regards....