I thought I was doing a great job with the clean install and was home free and then something very weird happened. And this was after I successfully installed the full version and even re-installed Office, etc. (or so I thought). When I was going to connect to the internet again, I realized that I had to pick the closest choice to my modem on the list (because it no longer appeared on the modem list) and I needed to download the driver for it (which I did on my PC). When I tried to log back on, I got a quick string of asterisks across the password field and then a loud persistent set of dings like an alarm. There was nothing I could do except shut the laptop down. I tried to reboot several times with the exact same result. Did I lock something accidentally and if so, how do I unlock. I clicked on the unlock button (at CTRL-ALT-DEL) but that didn't work. I did notice that when I tried to reboot, I got a black screen with Windows 2000 selection choice twice asking me which I wanted to boot to. I thought I had deleted the partition when I installed it. Do I just try a clean install again to resolve this? And when it asks me if I want to delete the partition, do I just delete one or both? My laptop is about to fly out the window.
