Message Edited by Denny Denham on 10-27-2004 02:43 PM

Those errors suggest that there is no media in the CD-ROm .. that's nothing to do with your HDD .. so what i suggest you is .. try to copy the NTOSKRNL.EXE file from the i386 folder .. how to do is mentioned in the KB article of Microsoft.

I'll tell you in short.

Start the computer and tapp the F12 after you see the first light glowing on your keyboard ..

you'll c a boot device menu,

Insert the Windows XP Disk in the Top CD Drive .. select the option that say Boot from CD-ROm or IDE-CDROM from the boot device menu on your screen and hit enter.

Hit enter if you c "press anykey to boot from cd"

when you c the screen Press "R" to repair using recovery console .. press "R"

type "1" and hit enter, then hit enter on Administrator password or type it if you have any.

Now you are on the c:\windows

now type here:

expand d:\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

and hit enter.

Now type exit and hit enter .. your system will restart.

Let me know if it works.

With Warm Regards,
Luqman.

Lugman and Denny,

Tried your suggestions but the file couodn't be created.  Now I'm doing a repair reinstallation of  Windows XP. At least I can see something on the screen again instead of the blank screen with the dreaded message of corruption!!  It has 35 more minutes to go before install is complete--I'll let you know if all is well.

Message Edited by shipsbelle on 10-28-2004 10:44 AM

OK guys, what now?  I did the repair reinstall of the Windows XP and it worked fine while I was using it.  But about 20 minutes after it was idle I got that dreaded blue screen message "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.  Kernel_Stack_Inpage_Error  Dumping physical memory to disk"

When I try to reboot, the page with the options of F2 and F12 opens and I click on F12 to boot.  No matter what drive I try to boot with I get the same page response that Windows did not open successfully and to try the last known good boot, which they show as the "Normal" one.  Then it proceeds to try to boot and all I get is a white ribbon across the bottom of the message screen.  I tried to reinstall the repair Windows XP, but it won't open Windows after going thru the 30 minutes of set up!  Takes me back to the Dell page with the F2 and F12 options which don't work.

Any advice?

Thanks!

Belle

Hi,

My name is Luqman .. not Luqman. :smileyhappy:

Let me tell you briefly about parallel reinstall.

Start the computer and tap F12 to enter Boot device menu. (or you can change the boot sequence to CD from BIOS)

Insert XP disk in Top CD Drive .. highligt IDE CDROm hit enter, hit enter on Press Any Key to Boot.

Hit Enter to install Windows, F8 on licese agreement

If you get a screen that says to repair windows press R then press Esc .. Else

Highlight the C: Partition and hit enter .. now press C to continue

Now Highlight Leave Current file system Intact and hit enter .. then pres Esc.

now in the box instead \Windows ... type \WinXP .. and hit Enter .. follow onscreen instructions.

at the time of Creating user accounts just create one user account with the name User1 .. and search for your data on c:\ drive and save it ... ok

With Warm Regards,
Luqman.