My Win2k is having trouble booting up, after the black screen with "Starting Windows 2000" screen, it goes into a blue screen that says "registry cannot load hive file SystemRoot\\System32\\Config ...

One way to avoid most issues like this is to have your boot drive on a Promise ATA-100 PCI card. I've moved drives around with 2000/XP from motherboard to motherboard without any issues by doing ...