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Laptop problems again

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coastalbuck

coastalbuck

And this one belongs to the Reds!
    • When I try to start the damn thing I get the following file is missing or corrupt
    <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. please re-install a copy of the above file. When I try to boot with the 2000 cd in, it does the same thing.

    Any ideas, could I make a boot disk on another computer with 2000 and boot with that? thanks ahead of time. I know one of you guys will have an idea.
     
    Yikes, that isnt good.

    Hey you may have to forgive me because I dont remember the specs and whatnot of your laptop.

    It is running Win 2000? But it wont even boot from the win 2000 cd? I would say you need to get it to boot from the win 2k disk, and run a repair.

    Can you give us a little background on the laptop, recent problems, etc.?
     
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    Wow, that could be quite a few things. The first thing I would do is verify that the hard disk is still working/not crapped out. Check the HDD manufacturer's Web site for a diagnostic tool that you can boot to. They almost all have them.
     
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    Gateway laptop, old P2. Finds Hitachi hard drive on start up, just won't start Windows. I don't want to reformat if i can help it, my son uses it and it has all the school stuff he needs, Powerpoint, Publisher, Word, accel, ect. I have two others esentially the same machine, that's why I thought maybe I could make a boot diskette from one of them and get it running then, if necessary, reinstall Win. 2000. big hoops coming up, scUM sucks. :oh:
     
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    any way of checking free space? and memory??

    if a P2 is running W2.. it probably is eating a lot of hard drive and memory... then you start adding the files for school... especially PPT and Publisher... graphics.. couple songs... you're eating up physical space...

    and a PS2 probably doesn't have a big hard drive.. relative to today...

    eventually you will shut the system down... if there is inadequate hard drive and/or memory to even boot...
     
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    coastalbuck said:
    There was a gig and a half or so memory left last time I booted it.
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    Memory or physical disk space?

    Physical disk space generally needs to be at least 20% free space.. it could POSSIBLY run on down to 10% but generally under 15% left, it could freeze up... reason is, it needs the free space to paginate and swap out 'data' or code..

    When's the last time you deleted temp internet files?
     
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    eventually you will shut the system down... if there is inadequate hard drive and/or memory to even boot...
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    Naaa that wont happen. Somethin would have had to physically delete the file it's looking for on startup, or corrupted it, but running out of HD space or mem isnt gonna keep it from booting. Just will make it run like ass.

    I would guess that in the bios, you do not have it set to boot from the cd drive first, hence why it wont boot from the windows 2k cd. You really need to check that first. It is probably F1 or F2 on startup (although I am not positive which it is on a gateway.

    Then look for a boot device priority section or something.

    If you end up formatting it, create a separate partition for data and anything you don't want to lose. That will save you a lot of trouble in the future.
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    Definitely do this..........of course it is easier if you have a big HD. Might be a bit difficult with something that old. If you end up formatting also, you may wanna go to win 98 instead of 2k. Of course dont take my word on that, I just dislike win2k.........is a resource hog and slows the machine down bad. Especially an older machine.
     
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    if it doesn't have the wiggle room (hard drive free space) or adequate available memory then the boot sequence could bomb... it may not be able to find a file because it doesn't have the resources to complete the task... that's why you use the boot disks... it circumvents the sys from doing extra stuff / consuming extra resources... similar to safe mode...
     
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