Guest casper508 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 I have two harddrives. One's the main one running w2k pro(sec. master) and the other i use for backups etc, (sec. slave) running W98. I had to install Win98 on a third HD so I disconnested my sec master, booted from the W98 (sec slave) and installed win98 on this third drive. Everything was fine until I tried to hookup my W2k drive back in place. Now i'm getting an error that NTOSKRNL.exe is corrupt and i should copy/reinstall it. My laptop has win2k pro as well. Is it ok if i copy the file across? OR I could reinstall it but the Win2k CD has the file in the compressed format (NTOSKRNL.EX_). How do i extract / decompress a single file? Please HELP!! Cas
Guest caio1 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Wait wait... Did you set again in bios to boot from sec. master? Caio
Guest caio1 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Is there something differente on primary bus? Caio
Guest caio1 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 I think the best way is to boot from w2k cd-rom and do a so called "in-place upgrade". Just reinstall win2k on the same hd/partition/folder and after that it would run just fine. read about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;292175 Caio
Guest casper508 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 "Setup was unable to install Boot Loader. Insure that your C: drive is formatted and that the drive is not damaged." Doesn't sound good. I can see the drive though. Cas
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 You can't install Win98 after 2k on a dual boot system as 9x will nuke whatever boot record you have. Get shot of the 98 hdd's and use the admin tools on your 2k CD to rebuild your MBR.
Guest casper508 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Ive disconnected the win98 HD and trying to run setup from the cd but keep getting the error mentioned in my previous post. Cas
Guest mashkhan Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Couldn't you boot off a DOS disk and use the command fdisk /mbr to rebuild the Master boot record?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 fdisk will complain at NTFS though won't it?
Guest mashkhan Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 yep, your right. However because Cas says he's dual booted his system with Windows 98 I've assumed his file system is Fat32. Or you can boot of a Win 2k CD do a repair and re-write the boot sector
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Which is what i already suggested ;), but: "Setup was unable to install Boot Loader. At what point does it say this Cas?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Sounds like 98 may well have finished off oyur MBR... :/ Got another NTFS disk you can save your files off onto?
Guest casper508 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 No NTFS im afraid. Just two w98 HDDs and the corrupted W2k drive. Isnt there anything i could do other than format?? Data isnt the problem, most of it is backed up but too much software on the system.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 Not used it so no idea, no harm in trying though...
Guest casper508 Posted May 7, 2003 Report Posted May 7, 2003 Ran the setup from within 98 and atleast it started and got me thru to Console Recovery. Ran Admin Tools and tried fixboot , fixmrb. Also extracted the exe which was reported missing. Still no luck. Keep getting the same error. Spend the rest of the evening backingup the data and now getting ready for a reinstall :) Cas
Guest SeeJ Posted May 7, 2003 Report Posted May 7, 2003 BTW, I know this hasn't got anything to do with your problem, but I would advise you to put 1 HD and 1 CDRW on your primary IDE bus, and 1HD + 1DVD on the secondary. This will improve performance greatly when transfering data between HDs and when copying CDs.
Guest siu99spj Posted May 7, 2003 Report Posted May 7, 2003 Caper: Sorry to hear that. Annoying ain't it? I dual boot XP and 98 but when I installed them I made sure the other drive didn't see it (Physically disconnected). Now to switch I just change which drive I boot from (The joys of a RAIDed mobo). SeeJ: Where the hell did you get that idea :? . Most IDE cables (non ATA-66 or above) will only transfer as fast as the SLOWEST drive on them, and no way are Casper's CD/DVD drives even close to that of his HDDs (Unless he's got some funky quantum spinning going on [or maybe just real slow HDDs :oops:]) Anyhow, his setup is perfectly good for what he wants, especially if running off ATA66 as they can just the HDDs can just transfer through the loop, not even touch the mobo (Or SHOULD do, some mobo's don't support). Having the CDRW and DVD on a cable is fine too, so long as he don't do too many on the fly copies. My rig is a bit weird but here goes: IDE0: CDRW and DVD IDE1: CD (Fast as *&^$) and ZIP250 IDE2(RAID): Primary OS HDD (XP - 30GB) IDE3(RAID): 40GB Junk (and 98 installation) HDD and 80GB Video editing and storage HDD. 150GBs :shock: of HDD goodness... :twisted:
Guest casper508 Posted May 7, 2003 Report Posted May 7, 2003 I thot both HDs on same cable would have faster transfer??
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