I am running w2k and i was looking into upgrading to xp-pro.

I downloaded the Upgrade Advisor and ran it. It told me that I had an old version of ez cd creator and i should update it or remove it. I went to remove it and there was no such program. I did a reinstall of the program and then restarted my machine. When it booted back up I got the w2k load screen with the blue bar at the bottom, but then it went to a blue screen that told me a bunch of crap about bad hardware and or software. I booted in safe mode to remove the ez cd but it wont let me. It tells me that window installer failed to start.

My Q. is, is it ez cd or the Upgrade Advisor that is causing this?

I don't now were or how to remove Upgrade Advisor if it is that.

Went to Roxio and looked into mannual removal, did it, but it didnt work.

So I guess I can rule that out.

EZ-CD Creator is well known for installing base drivers that are sometimes a s*** to remove (something to do with ASPI, methinks) and can wreck havock in your whole system. This is especially the case if you install an older version that doesn't know about Win2K and thinks it is WinNT4.

Maybe your Win2K install was itself an upgrade from an older Windows version?

I'd still think it is related to it.

First thing is you should get back to us with the exact message on the blue screen and the version of EZ-CD Creator that was detected (if it is mentioned?).

I said the hell with it and backed up the drive via safe mode and reformated and put XP pro. on.

Thanks for the help.