Corrupted OS... now what?

Limehouse

Limehouse

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Here's what/how it happened:

Decided to go for a motherboard upgrade to a Gigabyte P31-DS3, motherboard seems to install fine... until I get a 'ntskrnl.exe cannot be found, please reinstall this file' message. 'Ok', I thought, just a simple OS repair...

Well, seems i'd accidentally fried the CD drive in the process... so, I go out and buy a £15 Asus Sata 18x drive today and the drive powers up, huzzah!

Put the XP disk in... and after the POST screen, not happens, it just seems to hang there :confused:

Is this a case of my old OS/HDD having a fit because it couldn't find the old motherboard? And I presume this was a case of a corrupted OS?

Any help would be much appreciated... i've got to use a horrible Celeron Laptop in the meantime :(

Thanks,
-Limehouse
 
Please tell me you did'nt just swap the motherboard without re-installing Windows or at least removed the old drivers? It just will not work. You probably have a load of conflicts and it's Windows throwing a hissy fit. You would still have all the old drivers from the previous mobo on your hdd which will be incompatiable with your new board. You can try to do a repair installation that should leave all your files intact, but failing that you need to do a reformat/install of Windows.
 
Eeek...

I did. :(

Thing is though, I cannae do a repair installation as it just hangs... now it won't even post. Should I go and reset the CMOS?
 
OK, that's a bit worrying. Try to re-set CMOS and select the DVD as the boot drive. When Windows gets to the bit about installing select repair and hope it works. If it does'nt then you will have to format the drive and do a fresh installation.
 
Isn't the kernal stored on the hdd's so if the hdd's are throwing a fit because of the new board and windows. I suggest a long process of putting your old board back in, booting up, removing motherboard drivers, shutting down, new motherboard in, and pray to shegna it works.
 
pastymuncher said:
OK, that's a bit worrying. Try to re-set CMOS and select the DVD as the boot drive. When Windows gets to the bit about installing select repair and hope it works. If it does'nt then you will have to format the drive and do a fresh installation.
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Doesn't POST... :/ even when using a fresh HDD... (I say fresh, it's an old Dell one I formatted a while ago and the metadata is trashed)
FrostedNipple said:
Isn't the kernal stored on the hdd's so if the hdd's are throwing a fit because of the new board and windows. I suggest a long process of putting your old board back in, booting up, removing motherboard drivers, shutting down, new motherboard in, and pray to shegna it works.
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This looks like it might be my only option... IF this doesn't work... a brand new HDD?

Would it be wise to install the drivers for the new Motherboard before I install it?
 
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Well if your motherboard wont post it wont be anything to do with the kernel.

The kernel takes over from boot ini file that initialises the master boot record on your HDD etc
 
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