Not DAoC related, but beyond me for shore

[old.Rawkeer]

My computer totalled, can't fix it, need help

I was runing windows 2k pro edition, and after installing ms office XP and visual studio i rebboted. Then i got a strange error message about ntoskrnl.exe being missing or corrupt (this was on startup). After a few messages like this with ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll i reinstalled win 2k, after the original setup witht he blue screen and doin the partition and such i rebooted to go to the next setup part and got the same error. After figuring that the only thing that could cause the problems after a full format would be a screwed up master boot record i decided to try and clear it so i made a boot disk and started up. As soon as it came to the boot off the floppy bit i got the error something like "Disk I/O error, please re-insert and try again"... So i cant get to my dos prompt.. I've tried installing win 2k, win XP, win 95 and win NT all to get the same error. I also decided to try installing linux mandrake 7.2 as i thought this would overwrite my MBR when installing lilo.. But the installation wouldn't work, it was gonna take 4 hrs and 20mins and the time was just increasing...

I NEED my computer people, any ideas?

 

[old.seb1024]

Apart from I run W2k advanced server office XP and Visual studio 6. I have not seen these problems.

I assume you have tryied using the Win98 command "fdisk /mbr"
on the drive? and used win98 to format it. then during the NT install tell NT to format it aswell - dont seem to matter whether its NTFS or fat16 at this stage (when all fooks up this has worked for me before)

Unfortuantely I would expect Linux Lilo to modify the mbr anyway

I assume u know that hal.dll is part of the way NT talks to your Harddrive so maybe the drive interface is going to that place in the sky? Does your motherboard Bios allow to format or can you low level the drives with something? this will be a good indication of controller failure if it still fails.

>>to the boot off the floppy bit i got the error something >>like "Disk I/O error, please re-insert and try again"... So i cant >>get to my dos prompt..
this bit usually means that your dos flopy has no idea how to talk to the hard drive typically cos floppy win98(fat16) and hard drive NTFS formats
so no biggy there.

not sure if i have helped much but give it a try

 

[m-a-n-t-i-s]

Rawk I had a similar problem.

Every time my system was rebooting after installing xp it became corrupted with various different messages. Then sometimes it might work... only to be left over night and then get corrupted again.

My problem was eliminated by slowing down my memory a little. You need to do this in your bios but I cant tell you how as most Bios's are different.

Cant promise this will fix it... but it did for me

 

[old.dittytwo]

if you have the win98 cdrom you can make a boot disk form the cd on this cd there is a little utility called scrubcs.exe
which basically scrubs the disk
BE warned it will scrub the disk not a partition (but i think that there is a prompt after the scrubcs.exe like /c that says just scrub drive c ) read the help with it

you will then need to do the normal reformat and install

this is the best way i have found of getting over problems like that i have a win 98 disk that is perminently in my breif case for just such cases

T

 

[old.seb1024]

sounds very much like a low level formatter there

 

[Gef]

I had similar problem, turned out to be the IDE cables - may not be same problem for you but summit to check out.

 

[old.fat]

I also had the same problem. Mine was the Mboard needed a newer version ofbios. So I had to get the latest bios from the dealer as I had no internet wihout that pc It was fun but after reflashing the bios all of a sudden it all worked sweet.
Joke is that it mostly worked, just seems to corrupt things randomly. ( i have no idea why, it just did)