Help Installing

[derekthom]

Subject: Installation Problem
From: "Derek Thompson"


I built a Pc and have a clean hard drive in it and am
having trouble installing xp home. I partitioned the 120
gb Hard dirve into 3 sections. One 3.5 GB Primary DOS
Partition and one 116.5 GB Secondary dos Partition. I
divided the secondary dos partition into 2 logical DOS
drives, One 25 GB and one 91.5 GB. I formated each drive
(C, D, and E) Using the "Format" Command on the system
disk. I stuck The windows xp home edition CDROM in the
disk drive and restarted the computer. My Boot sequence
Is Floppy, CDROM, Hard Disk 0 so it loaded the setup
program upon restart. I selected the install windoes xp
command and proceeded to select C: , The Primary dos
partition and it installed windows partway. It said to
restart and that installation would continue when the
computer was restarted. I restarted the computer and when
it tried to start windows i got the error message

"THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT.
\SYSTEM32\NTOSKRNL.EXE
PLEASE REINSTALL A COPY OF THE ABOVE FILE"

I tried installation again after reformating the C: drive
and the same thing happened.

If anybody knows how to correct this problem please post a
message or email me at derekthom@charter.net


.

[bailey]

you must set the cdrom drive as the boot drive while installing xp

you want the sequence to be

cdrom
floppy
harddrive

[yellohut]

It shouldn't make a difference if it's a, cd, c.... so long as cd comes before c:..
it will just bypass a:\ after it doesn't find a bootable disk.

[KHT]

Usually ntoskrnl error messages refer to either a misconfigured boot.ini file or a corrupt ntoskrnl file, this however is after XP is installed.

Have you tried allowing XP to format the drive during setup?

Even though your boot sequence is OK, it can`t hurt to try CD, HDD,Floppy (basically taking the floppy out of the picture for now) temporarily for setup and then switch back to floppy first after installation. True, it is correct that upon not finding boot files on the floppy it should move onto the next device, CD, I`ve found instances where it hasn`t quite worked that way. Putting the CD first, HDD second, removes all doubt.

You said a new build. I`m assuming you`re not OCing in any way and have double checked bios settings. In particular ram CS, if it is pushed a little it might be causing data corruption.

[bailey]

is this cd your trying to install xp with a copy or the master one