Login Screen Freeze

I am running on Windows 2000, I believe. (It is a work computer.) I am unable to login because when I get to the login screen it freezes and won't allow me to do anything with either the mouse or the keyboard.

My IT Dept. has configured a new hard drive and everything works alright with it but I don't want to lose the information that was on my old hard drive. Is there any way to get beyond this problem so I can access my data? (If I send them the old hard drive I don't expect to get any of my information back and I really hate to have to try to rebuild everything on the replacement.)

I have tried starting in safe mode but the same thing happens when it gets to the login screen. I tried holding down F8 upon startup but the computer made a lot of noise and I didn't get to the "Windows Advanced Options" as I had expected to.

Can anyone help?

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Can you boot to safe mode?

Try booting in safe mode and make a big registry cleanup. Maybe this will solve your problem.

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Ignore this guy.

Try booting in safe mode and make a big registry cleanup. Maybe this will solve your problem.

Ignore this guy.

make sure if your hard disk is good
and try to boot with
live cd (like winternal ERD commander)
and also try to
chkdsk
for you harddisk

I'd think that will help you