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Thread ID: 80813	2007-07-05 23:26:00	"Ntoskrnl.exe" error message	rocky138 (10636)	Press F1

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566245	2007-07-05 23:26:00	Hi from the cold south. Have been presented with a Dell Inspiron 4100 to repair. The present owner got this cheap & was told it was a going unit. I am assuming by the information at the duel boot start that it is running a version of xp home. It comes up with the "windows could not start because the following file is corrupt or missing" <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe Please re-install a copy of the above file. A possible solution would be to run the recovery cd & repair the boot files. This would most likely work if there was either a recovery disc or a cd rom drive. I have ordered an optical drive for it but wondered if there was any other way I could kick start it in the mean time. MS offers a solution for this problem for win 2000 but I couldnt find anything for xp.	rocky138 (10636)
566246	2007-07-06 00:13:00	Hmm well an XP cd would help . I spose you could, if u had a usb flash drive and if the system supports booting from one . Make it bootable . And if u had a working version of XP, copy a few files to it . If this hdd was formatted in NTFS . Was, or is the hdd formatted in FAT32 or NTFS (does the owner know)? Will it boot into safe mode??	Speedy Gonzales (78)
566247	2007-07-06 00:17:00	Google is your friend www.google.co.nz	DeSade (984)
566248	2007-07-06 00:20:00	Hmm well an XP cd would help . I spose you could, if u had a usb flash drive and if the system supports booting from one . Make it bootable . And if u had a working version of XP, copy a few files to it . If this hdd was formatted in NTFS . Was, or is the hdd formatted in FAT32 or NTFS (does the owner know)? Will it boot into safe mode?? There is usb but no mention of it in the bios . System apears to be NTFS . No it won't boot into safe mode	rocky138 (10636)
566249	2007-07-06 00:23:00	Google is your friend www.google.co.nz Yea, wading through google solutions now. Havent found anything positive yet. MS covers it fairly well but not having a cd rom is a prob.	rocky138 (10636)
566250	2007-07-06 00:28:00	never had much to with dell but, do they use recovery partition	beama (111)
566251	2007-07-06 00:44:00	never had much to with dell but, do they use recovery partition Possibly, seeing there was no optical drive they may have the recovery on another partition. If I could work out how to find it.	rocky138 (10636)
566252	2007-07-06 00:49:00	Try rebooting and pressing one of the function keys. F10 or F12 or something. It should have something on the screen saying what key to press, for whatever. I wouldnt have a clue either. I've never had a PC like HP, or Dell, with a hidden partition. Go to the Dell site and do a search for the model.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
566253	2007-07-06 01:03:00	Try rebooting and pressing one of the function keys. F10 or F12 or something. It should have something on the screen saying what key to press, for whatever. I wouldnt have a clue either. I've never had a PC like HP, or Dell, with a hidden partition. Go to the Dell site and do a search for the model. Yea F2 is bios, F8 is advanced option menue & F12 is boot selection. Have downloaded Instruction & service manual. It tells you how to take it apart but sugest the restore disc for this type of problem. Great, the optical drive just arrived in the freight but it's the wrong one.	rocky138 (10636)
566254	2007-07-06 01:15:00	I've downloaded a diagnostic floppy program which let me view the contents of c: Managed to get a look at the boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=2 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect Looks like it could work. What other files should I look at.	rocky138 (10636)
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