My wife's mother board failed.
   I took both her hard drives out and
   installed them in another computer I had.

   It starts to boot gets well past the bios but it hangs up
   were it says on the screen "Starting Windows" above a wide
   white line.

   Does Windows 2000 only work on the mother board it
   was installed on?


The answer is both yes and no.  Win loads a boatload of drivers during
the boot sequence & these are tied directly to the underlying hardware.

Perform a safe-mode boot instead -- that will use only default drivers
that are fairly universal & will probably get you up.  Not all OS
services will be available & it will run dog-slow.  But if the goal is
to get files it will work ok.  Also - from a safe mode boot you can
begin switching out drivers to get a normal boot going.

mrs

Thanks Mark. See previous. Plan B.