Recovering windows after an nforce driver overwrite

Factual Questions
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Bit too technical for this board, but it doesn’t hurt to ask…

I installed my new nf3 ultra board, and still ran the old copy of windows I had installed on my nf2 board, with the nforce unified driver still installed.

The hardware all popped up and asked me for drivers, so clearly the unified drivers weren’t working for the new system. So I decided to reinstall the unified drivers - woops.

After that, when I got to the windows load screen, it started with the progress bar about halfway across, and stops there. Won’t load past that point. The moving color bar on the bottom still moves, so it’s not locked up, it’s just not loading.

In another OS, I uninstalled the old nforce drivers first, then installed new ones off the MSI cd, and that seems to work fine. I guess my error was overwriting the drivers in that OS, rather than uninstalling them and reinstalling them.

In any case, safe mode and last known good won’t work. When I run safe mode, it freezes after loading mup.sys …

Anyone have any ideas how I can recover that OS? I need to be able to boot into it enough to uninstall the nforce drivers and reinstall them.

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It may be too technical, but you’re going to have to post some of it anyways… I’m thinking OS (2k? XP? I don’t recall 9x having a “last known good”, but I could be wrong).
Brand of PC wouldn’t hurt, along with whether the OS is a factory install or not, and what types of disks you have (actual MS disks, or “recovery” styles disks, again from what manufacturer).

Lets assume it’s XP, with a mostly MS style disk - you do one of two things with this: Run a recovery install that keeps your files but gets you a “clean” install where some of your installed software would need to be reinstalled. Not ideal.

Alternately, you could boot to the recovery console, where XP (and 2k somewhat) have commands where you can add/remove drivers and services when booting. This could help, given more info.