dividedsky319
Junior Member
Ok, sort of a long story...
Built a new system, and I was putting into it two hard drives I was using in a system I had... a 40 gig and a 120 gig. I backed up what I needed on the 40 gig, then I wanted to format the 120 gig and install WinXP on it in the new system. Well, being dumb, I didn't really know how to format the 120 gig when it was the main disk (I made a DOS boot disk but I couldn't access the hard drive to run fdisk)
So, I went to download.com and found this program: Kill Disk
I started the program and started the process on the hard drive.. Well I decided it was taking too long so I decided to cancel (stupid idea)...
It got far enough that it said there was no OS on the system, so when I booted up with the WinXP disk, the setup thing came up and everything and I tried to install on the 120 gig and format it and everything... well it always gave me a "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" or a "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error and restarted.
I decided I'd just install the OS on the 40 gig, so I disconnected the 120 gig and installed and everything went fine.. But I still want the OS on the 120 gig drive. It works fine in windows, I ran chkdsk and it's fine, and I can put files on it and everything... but whenever I go to install onto the drive, it always gives me one of those two errors.
Any ideas?
Built a new system, and I was putting into it two hard drives I was using in a system I had... a 40 gig and a 120 gig. I backed up what I needed on the 40 gig, then I wanted to format the 120 gig and install WinXP on it in the new system. Well, being dumb, I didn't really know how to format the 120 gig when it was the main disk (I made a DOS boot disk but I couldn't access the hard drive to run fdisk)
So, I went to download.com and found this program: Kill Disk
I started the program and started the process on the hard drive.. Well I decided it was taking too long so I decided to cancel (stupid idea)...
It got far enough that it said there was no OS on the system, so when I booted up with the WinXP disk, the setup thing came up and everything and I tried to install on the 120 gig and format it and everything... well it always gave me a "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" or a "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error and restarted.
I decided I'd just install the OS on the 40 gig, so I disconnected the 120 gig and installed and everything went fine.. But I still want the OS on the 120 gig drive. It works fine in windows, I ran chkdsk and it's fine, and I can put files on it and everything... but whenever I go to install onto the drive, it always gives me one of those two errors.
Any ideas?
