win media ed. / win xp pro 64 bit multi-boot

Help, I have downloaded the trial. I checked all drivers with my machine
and they seem to be compatible. I have a Gateway GT5032 Dual Core AMD64,1GB
RAM. I am right now looking at the screen that says "Windows could not
start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows
root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please re-install a copy of the above file." I
have seen this before. I am using a Windows Media Edition already installed
and chose a "WIN" directory off the root of the C:\ drive to install the
version of windows. Lucky I can restore for the second backup
partition...unless anyone has any insite??

Thanks, Aaron

 

Boot off your Windows XP Professional x64 CD
In the Microsoft Windows XP setup menu press the R key to enter the recovery
console.
Select the operating system you wish to fix, and then enter the
administrator password.
Type expand d:\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32
You will then be prompted if you wish to overwrite the file type Y and press
enter to overwrite the file.
Type exit to reboot the computer.
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I think the directions for installation are pretty emphatic about *not*
installing to a partition already having Windows installed, and it would
seem even worse to do so with a x32 version... I think it's asking for
trouble to try doing this.

 

I second that. Installing 2 versions of windows in the same partition is a
no-no

 

You can't install WinXPx64 into the same hard drive or partition as an
earlier version of Windows.


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Hard drive is fine, not partition.

 

Why can't it be on a different partition? I am wanting to install x64 and
trying to determine to install another drive. If the boot.ini is just
pointing to where it is installed, then how is a different drive better than
a partition. It would seem to me that you should only have x64 only on a
drive and swap drives each time you want something different, although that
would be a major pain.

 

Whether you install x64 to a different partition on the same drive as
another edition of Windows or on a different drive entirely should not make
any functional difference when multi-booting.

 

It can be on a different partition. I mistyped that response.





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I have a question, has anyone where formatted their machine? I did any
everything was working fine untill the fact it did not reinstall my
Nforce Chipset drivers..there for...no connection to my lan. can
anyone help me on that subject? thanks.

 

The drivers should be on the motherboard CD you got with your system, and if
not, you can download them from the mobo mfg web site.

 

I have a similar issue.
I have recently installed WinXP64 on a raid 0 partition. The install went
fine, I needed to use F6 to install drivers to detect the partition. On
boot, if I don't have a bootable CD it won't boot to XP64. I don't even have
to boot to the CD, I can just let it run, then it displays the OS selection
screen, I select x64 and off it goes. I have an IDE drive with XP Pro (32)
installed and if I have that as the primary boot drive in bios I get the OS
list however if I select x64 it gives me the ntoskrnl.exe corrupt or missing
message. I have tried bootcfg /rebuild and expand ntoskrnl.ex_ from the
recovery console to no avail. I have coped the ntdetect and ntdlr files to
the root directory of the x64 partition and when I set the raid as the
primary boot device I get non system disk message. The next step is to
disable the IDE device so there is no other OS to be detected by setup, then
reinstalling x64. The problem then is what will happen when I enable the IDE
channel with the other XP install?? I don't want a dual boot, I'd be happy
with just x64, is there a way to disable the MBR of the 32 bit XP? Do I just
delete the boot.ini?
A8N-E, Athlon X2 3800, 2GB PC3200RAM, 2 WD 200GB SATA 2 drives in RAID 0.

 

Why don't you try copying the ntldr and ntdetect.com files from the x64 CD
to the XP Pro root and then have that drive as the primary boot drive and
see what you get. That should get you past the ntoskrnl problem.