Changed ntoskrnl.exe vista

It appears that one of them isn't working. I've just installed Vista again and everything works fine! Have to get a new memory on my warranty. Glad it worked, It was pretty clear that it's a memory failure issue after you said that you've formatted your HD and it also didn't boot. When I boot normally If I am to attempt to boot in safe-mode with Command Promt I get the original error message and a cycle is created.

Is there a way to boot from the DVD, and acces Command Prompt without reformating my hard-drive and reinstalling vista. I don't know if people are still focusing on this problem If you have two harddisks I would suggest you unplugged or switched off in the bios the one on which windows is installed, and see if the installation DVD works this way.

If it doesn't, you will know your problem does not come from your windows installation. If it does, you will have to install Windows on the other disk, get back your data on the faulty windows installation from another computer or usb craddle , and format the disk.

If you have changed your hardware since your first windows installation, maybe the problem with your windows DVD comes from there. The new writer was working perfectly on a fully installed Vista with all the drivers. But then something went wrong during SP1 install, it seemed to install completely but when the computer restarted I got the ntoskrnl. I was able to boot up from the DVD the first time, but windows setup doesn't correctly recognise my dvd writer for some reason or another, and I guess that's the reason why my windows installation was corrupted when attempting a windows restoration.

I was warned that the restoration had failed, and when I restarted the windows DVD didn't boot anymore, I got the clfs. I unplugged the disk on which windows was and booted from the DVD.

It worked, but when I tried a new windows installation it got corrupted, and I got a message saying installation had failed and I had to start again. I changed back to my former DVD writer, and then installation worked correctly until the end, I installed Service Pack one before installing any drivers on my fresh windows installation.

I tried booting from the new windows installation but with my former windows disk plugged in, and I got the same clfs. I now have a fully working Vista system again, with all drivers installed, my two hardisks and my new sata dvd writer, my ide dvd writer back in a cupboard, but now I know I still need it if I have to use the Vista DVD And I only have one hard-drive. I was able to boot from the DVD Once I do boot from the disk, and click next I really don't want to have to reinstall Vista again.

I am pretty sure I can load the files from the DVD from cmd prompt Does anybody know how to get to command prompt after booting form the DVD? Is there another way to get to command prompt? Or, is there another way to restore these files? You don't need to install Vista again if your DVD works. On the DVD you have the choice between an installation and a repair mode. If the repair mode works correctly, it will find your windows partition, and try to restore it.

If that fails if the windows partition is not found , you get to a screen with some program icons, one of them being the dos prompt, but it is not the first step.

I replaced one ata time tried restarting and replaceing the file that had the error. I replaced Hal. I can't help you. Maybe you could help me. What command is used to replace files on the C: drive with files from the virutal X: drive or the D: drive, I don't know which one I am supposed to use to the C: drive. I tried the solution suggested had to get hal. Will let you know if its succesful. Mark Scanel wrote:. Trust me, if you want it to boot again you have to replace all the files I listed.

Some files will not give you boot errors but not replacing them will cause the system to be unstable more than it already is or not boot at all. I did the exact thing you did and had the exact same issue, that's when I knew that there must be other files that caused the crash at boot mainly Hal. Could you please help?

I am facing the same ntoskrnl. I've done what digitalica suggested but I'm still on the black screen. What else I can do? The computer ran fine for a week without any problem whatsoever and then suddenly did that to me. So I repaired it with the Vista DVD and suprisingly it worked, but then it did it again today 2 days later. This sin't because I rebooted as the computer was closed and reopened 2 times before the error reapeared. I succeeded in repairing the error and booting on Vista again but since this is the second time it happens I'm guessing it's not going to stop now.

I'm wondering if I have to replace hal. I don't think this solution applies to your problem, But it MIGHT work if the corrupted file s in your PC is one of the files listed here to be replaced. I have tried and with no success. Now it has been doing this to me for a week It's not that bad since it doesn't disable me from accessing the computer, but I have to do a fixboot with the vista dvd every morning, and having to do that keeps someone from working on it in the morning when Im no there.

Try to perform a manual system restore to fix the issue. Restart the computer manually. The computer will boot J. NB: I do see that while trying a manual system restore there might be a chance a small data loss. So please try at your own risk. Very frustrating. You cannot install SP1 through windows update only with Vista and I have noticed this over the last 6 months or so.

Before then it worked fine. I'm assuming many people have been having this problem and Microsoft has just decided to not allow SP1 to install through the updater services.

If so it's ridiculous I have tried new discs, downloading new service packs and installing on two separate systems with no issues. I have reinstalled many times, I have nuked the HDD to 0's w no luck. I could reinstall windows but last time I ignored these same exact errors they just eventually came back. What should I do? Unfortunately I do not have any other advice to offer beyond what has already been given.

It sounds as if your installation is corrupted beyond repair. The only thing I can suggest is to start from scratch. I know this not what you want to hear but I do not believe your existing installation is recoverable. You mentioned reinstalling Windows and that later these same problems occured.

Was that a repair install? If it was a clean install, did you reformat? If not, I would suggest you follow this guide for reinstalling XP. During setup, you should delete all partitions and then recreate any partitions you need. Do a full format, not quick, and then proceed with the installation. If these steps still do not fix your problem, It might be indicative of a failing hard drive.

I hope for your sake it isn't but honestly, I don't know what else to suggest. You might try going to the manufacturer's website to download a diagnostic utility to test your drive. Lately I've been getting many private messages concerning this problem. I don't mind helping out but it's best for everyone if you post your problem publicly in this thread.

The chances of your problem being resolved are greater if it is posted for all to see. That being said, I really don't have any other soulutions beyond what's already been discussed. If I do come across other solutions I will post them here. If anyone else solves their 'ntoskrnl' problem by other means, please share your solution. Its not looking too good. I followed those directions exactly that you gave me, deleted my partition, created a new one, and then did the full format option.

This disk may be damaged. Make sure the drive is switched on and properly connected to your computer. Consult your computer manual or SCSI adapter documentation for more information. This sucks. I think it may not be properly connected or somehow switched off because the hard disk is only about 3 maybe 4 months old. I had to get a new one because My computer was saying "Boot Disk Error" and the guy we brought it to said the hard disk blew and had to be replaced.

Its possible he installed it wrong or something. Its practically brand new. I'm really sorry to hear that. I'd recommend you contact the person that installed it for you. If it was mounted improperly, excessive vibration could cause a failure.

Maybe a bad power supply, although other system components would probably fail as well. These are just guesses. A technician would need to troubleshoot your computer. What are your system specifications? Are you using more than one drive? I dont know off the top of my head what brand the hard drive is but Im only using one. Ill have to check when I stop home. Ill contact the guy that installed the hard drive for me and see if he can take a look at it.

Will it be listed in the BIOS? When I boot up it simply says: "Cannot detect an operating system. I found the model of my hard drive. It is a Maxtor 4KH2. Are all hard drives compatible with all computers or no? It is an ATA hard drive by the way.

Ok I found the model of my hard drive. I wasn't questioning the compatibility of the drive. I was going to suggest that you search the web to see if anyone else is having similar problems or maybe search the maxtor website for a diagnostic utility.

However, at this point I think it's best if you talk to the guy who installed it. I can't hazard a guess as to what could be wrong. Also this google search may yield something useful: "Setup was unable to format the partition.

Given the ongoing subject in light of the new "hardware" problem and after admittedly a somewhat quick read of the post, I find it difficult to see exactly what thread replies should be split off. I think it's fine for now as is. If it gets way to skewed towards a hardware matter we'll take a second look. I found this link which lets you download Maxtor PowerMax onto to a floppy drive. It is made to be booted up with your computer and will check the drive for any and all problems.

I dont have a floppy with me so I will run it tomorrow. Hopefully this will give me a clear idea of whats wrong with the drive and maybe how to fix it.

Thanks for the help so far I really appreciate it. I put the floppy with the diagnostic utility on it to scan my HD for errors. It began searching for installed devices and it popped up asking me to choose the one that was my HD. Well my hard drive wasnt listed. Under Master there was nothing recognized and under slave there was nothing recognized.

They were the secondary master and slave. I opened the lid on my case and found my hard drive easily. It was secure and everything was plugged in tightly. However I couldnt find any kind of "jumper" switch that I've heard mentioned. Why isnt my HD being recognized?

Hmm, I really don't know what to suggest next. Is the IDE cable plugged into the motherboard securely? Perhaps the IDE cable itself is bad.

Do you have a spare IDE cable laying around that you might try? Is the Drive plugged into the grey or black connector on the cabe? Typically, the black connector should be plugged into the master drive and the grey into the slave.

Other than that, I can't think of anything else outside the drive and connectors that might cause the problem. Maybe the there is a problem with the onboard IDE controller. I can't really speculate on that. I had a computer with a hard drive not detected last week. After about 6 hours of playing with it, trying to reinstall Windows which oddly worked to a point buying a new harddrive, formatting it and installing Windows on it again only to find the new drive not recognized, I took out the CMOS battery for about 15 seconds, plugged it back in and was back in business.

I'll probably never know what caused the problem in the first place but it worked. It's the small flat round Lithium C battery or something like that -- you can't miss it. Added note - If you do remove it, you'll have to reset your system time after you get Windows back. I am having the same problem with the corrupt or missing file, and I have read all the posts and links from the posts. I guess that I am missing something. I don't understand how to just get a dos prompt and start moving files around.

Maybe someone can explain it to me. I'm running win xp pro, and I have two Maxtor gb Sata drives on raid 0. I'm not sure what the recovery console is or how to get there. I have booted from the xp cd and pressed R for recovery. It sounds like this is a different thing than the "recover console" from some of the links that I read.

Anyway, whether I select recover or install from the cdrom, it claims to be examining my hard drive and never finishes. I let it run for 8 hours last night, when I got up this morning it still claimed to be examining.

It does see one large gb drive which is correct 2Xgb raid0 , but jsut never finishes examining. Could it really be taking more than 8 hours to examine a gb drive? So since I can't seem to do anything with the xp cd, I have thought about making a boot disk or something, but I am not sure if that will work. The Sata Drives aren't detected until I put the drivers on.

With the xp cdrom it gives me the option to press f6 to install the sata drives. I'm not too proficient in making boot disks. I have seen the option when formatting a floppy in xp. There is probably a way to get the drives to load from a boot up disk, and this would give me a dos prompt, but even if I could get access to the Sata drives, they are NTFS, so I woulnd't be able to browse them anyway would I?

I have a second pc with win xp on it so I can get on the internet, and make disks and cds. I had rather boot from a cd.

I didn't even put a floppy drive on my new computer, they are so outdated, I can't believe that we still have to use them. So I am swapping the floppy drive between computers as needed. I would like to make a boot cd that would install the sata drivers, and give me access to move files around is this possible?

Is this the wrong direction? What else shoudl I try? Basically it does not seem as easy to get to the shell and move files around as all the articles and people here are acting like. What am I missing? Please help, it really sucks to have my pc down. Thanks in advance. I put in a new hard drive, installed windows on it, and then tried to access my original 2 Sata raid 0 drives. I can view some of the files.

I was hoping to either go in and fix the corrupted files, or at least pull my data off. I am thinking that it may be some kind of windows security thing rather than real corruption. Is this the case? Isn't there any way to get to these files and modify or copy them?

Someone please help me, I am so close to getting my data back, but still so far. Again, I'll recap what happened to mine, because it may help you recover your data, at the very least. I had no problems with it and quite honestly liked it to an extent, but it had too many quirky conflicts with my Novell network at work so I chose to install Pro overtop of it. No problems there. The XP install went off without a hitch, but like everyone else in this thread, when I went to boot Win2K Pro I had this dreaded ntoskrnl file problem just like everyone else.

The workaround is to "hide" all other NTFS partitions. This way they don't get "rewritten". Hence the "corruption". After careful study of the solutions offered and the same attempts many have made to solve it, I tried a different approach.

I created a fourth partition and did a clean install of Win2K being especially careful this time to "hide" the other NTFS partitions. In theory this worked. It's a bit of a pain, but the end result is I can boot to both of the latter versions of Win2K and XP partitions.

Hence I was able to access all the files from there, but I could not see either XP partition. Bottom line is I was able to recover all files on the computer and not have to format it and start from scratch.

I'm not sure that's within the range of what most are willing to do, but I am living proof that it can be done. I read this three times, and it seems like it should be helpful. I don't understand how you hid other installs. I also don't understand how you are able to see all your files while I am not. It seems pretty similar to what I did. Maybe it is because I don't understand what role System commander played in this for you. System Commander runs on boot and keeps track of MBR and has options for partitioning, either manually or with a wizard, and OS installation wizard.

It's built in to the program, and trufully I'm not certain how it's done. It can also be done manually in the partitioning portion. As far as seeing the files? Not sure there either. Perhaps it's because I used the same administrator password for all OS installs?

I don't know. Hopefully taking ownership of the files will do it for you. Unfortunately I could not read anything off the drives today. I ran powermax which is a Maxtor disk utility. Yes, both drives that are part of my raid array went bad. I asked the guy if that was odd, and he asured me that it was very odd.

But offered no explanation. So I am getting two new hard drives. I guess that my problem has changed, does anyone know of any good data recovery software that will work on a raid 0 configuration? I am having a problem when installing Win 2k3 Server. When my system reboots for the first time during the install process, I get a blue screen telling me that the Windows cannot find the proper installation. The install is an upgrade from Win 2K Server.

EXE file is either corrupt or doesn't exist. Ok,I've tried a couple of things with no use untill I found this topic but just when JrzyCrim gave me the answer the repair console gives me a message "access denied" to the windows folder,now what? Patience my friend. This thread started May 10th and people are still answering questions about it. Trust me, when someone here thinks they can offer a good suggestion, they will post it.

At the moment, I can't think of anything that hasn't already been suggested or I would have offered something. I've been kicking it around in the back of my mind for the last hour or so. This is a tough problem. My workstation at the office still has a Win2k partition with this problem, that I haven't fixed yet either, in spite of all the suggestions already made.

Believe me, if I can figure it out, this thread will be the first place I come to to post the solution. Other people have had access problems from within the recovery console.

I still haven't found a solution for that. In fact, the only parts of the system partion that you are allowed to access are the Windows directory and all of it's sub directories. This shouldn't be a problem since the file you are trying to replace resides inside of Windows. Unless you are talking about Safe mode with Command Prompt. I'm assuming you can't boot into safe mode. If the config folder is really missng, then that is 'totally messed up'.

There are several important system files that are located there. Try hitting F8 at the beginning of the boot sequence. When the menu comes up, select Last known good configuration. That may replace those missing files. Beyond trying a repair install or clean install, I don't have any other solutions. What type of Hard Drive do you have?

You are offered the option of hitting F6 to install the drivers when booting from the Windows CD. Well the strange thing is that I'm using FAT partitions and still the folder config doesn't want to show up,it's saying "invalid folder" and the last time I accessed it from the repairing console!

That cannot be executed from dos. That I folder isn't supposed to be on the C: drive. It's on the XP CD for setup. Oh well,what can I do,and I can't repair my windows with the win xp disc because the repair option is unavailable,now what?

If you run install and select to install it overtop of the existing OS, it should repair all the missing entries. Your files and other directories should remain intact, however, you may find that you will have to reinstall some or all of your programs. Depends on how much was missing from your Windows directory. If you reinstall to the same directory the program was originally installed, you should find a lot of the original configurations will still be there.

At least that is what I experienced when I did this with Win2K. The only little quirk is that you'll probably see two instances of XP to choose from when you boot. The "good" default one will the one that is auto-selected on top. I'm sick of everything! Everything I try fails and I'm been trying to save my system without having a preinstall but I guess this is now impossible. Now what will happen if instead of the "repair" option I hit the "Install" option,at least somethings will be saved right?

Your old profile will still remain under documents and settings. You can copy the files from the old profile to the new for those and favorites and you should be fine. As I corrected the fault I thought I'd post a reply as this thread seems quite recent. I have a live win2k fat32 partition which is number 3 i see it as hda3 on linux not so sure how its represented in windows and a hidden ntfs xp partition which is number 2 hda2. Oops not good!!

Crap -- I keep forgetting about that. Now that you bring it up, I remember my teacher even had us go though an exercise to change boot. But your method of access via Knoppix is much appreciated! Great post. I'm sure that will help others. And ditto your comments about R Console -- what a joke! I don't much like the RC either but usally that's the only thing people have available at the time.

Knoppix and BartPE are both great tools for recovery and repair. That leaves out the users. You don't have to download a large ISO however. I today had to change the hidden primary ntfs partition to an extended logical partition because i wanted to see the data on it. When I rebooted, Wham! I got the same error. Interestingly I did'nt notice the error as Partition magic does not list the partition numbers. QTParted Its a bit like partition magic on windows if you hav'nt seen it before on knoppix however does so it was relatively easy to spot.

I don't know if any of you windows users out there have a programme that does list them, it would be useful for checking before you reboot after doing some work, anyone know of one? So to summarize.

I think a good plan of action is I boot using the Win2k cd, choose repair, it tells me it can't find a hard drive! CMOS sees the drive fine. Sleap -- reread the above from anonymous coward. I think that's about as close as anyone has gotten to the underlying cause of the problem. Actually, it appears that the ntoskrnl message was coming because the drive wasn't spinning up quick enough for Windows to see it.

I'd downloaded NTFSreader, but couldn't see the drive of course. Anyway, on the next boot up, I just slammed my fist down on the top of the unit, heard the drive spin up, and voila Something I noticed this time that I hadn't in the past, was that it hadn't seen either the primary or secondary drives prior Anyway, pc is now booted and running. Couple of things I'm going to check.. Could be that they're loose enough that when I smacked it, they made good enough connection to boot.

I don't believe there is one underlying cause. There are a number of different problems which will result in the ntoskrnl error. The boot. I had this problem a while back and it was due to a corrupt file. It happened spontaneously. I don't have more than 1 OS and I hadn't fooled with any partitions.

I posted the method I used to correct the problem. It's helped a couple of people but it's only one solution for one cause. I suspect a system with virus troubles can cause this if ntoskrnl.

Had one poster that was able to fix the ntoskrnl. Based on a tip I posted in another thread, OS choices menu , I wanted to see If I could make a floppy that would boot the system into safe mode. I did have success. In fact, putting my money where my mouth is, I deleted my boot. Placing the necessary files plus a modified boot. It needs to be formatted from within windows. Insert disk into drive, right-click on the floppy drive, select format.

Leave "create a msdos startup disk" unchecked. Place the following code in the file:. Usually the system partition is the first partition. The point is to increase airflow to maximize heat dissipation. We can analyze the minidumps if you make them available from the OneDrive or other file sharing sites such as MediaFire. If you have problems uploading the minidumps copy them to the Desktop or the Documents folder and upload them from there. So it is best to also swap sticks in and out to check for those even if all memory tests fail to show a problem.

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So if you use this you will need to faithfully and quickly restart it every 15 minutes. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information.

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Therefore, what causes ntoskrm. Please move on to the next part to find the answer. It is very crucial to find the causes of ntoskrm. You can solve the error more quickly after find the causes. Another benefit is that you can prevent the error from happening again. Here are some clues for you. Given to that fact, you need to try several fixes to solve the error. As said above, there are several possible causes of ntoskrm.

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