Computer Won't Boot

[lazyboy]

Well I installed some aspi drivers which really messed up my system. When I rebooted, I'm running win2k, I got a stop error. So I rebooted and chose Last known good which caused my system to boot to a blank screen. I rebooted and got the error that ntoskrnl.exe was either missing or corupt. I thought I would just put that on a CD (too big for floppy) boot with a boot disk and replace it. But a boot disk that I know works won't work on my machine, it just hangs after Starting Windows 98. So I'm pretty screwed does anyone know how to fix this? Also I'm using a IBM 45GB GXP could the drive be failing and causing all these problems?

I would reformat I haven't found a boot disk that will boot my system I'm worried reformatting won't solve the problem.
I also have linux which doesn't boot anymore either. It just goes to a blank screen. I tried to use a linux boot disk which gave me a crc error. Trying to use the IBM Drive Fitness Test boot disk gives me a divide overflow error.

 

[jaredm77]

reformating should work, and you can boot directly from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM.

 

[jaredm77]

you could also try repairing the install in Windows 2000, when you boot from the CD, try reinstalling it or repairing it...then you won't have to reformat, and it should replace any damaged or corupted files.

 

[Pederv]

Disconnect your hard drive and see if when you try and boot from a floppy, it'll finish booting. That would be a good indication of a failing hard drive.

 

[SpecialEd]

Try putting your hard drive in another system and then run a scan disk of your drive. The Win2k scan disk is pretty good at finding and fixing errors. If there is nothing important on that HD... I'd would try reformatting... I think it would work... boot off the Win2k CD and work from there.

 

[lazyboy]

Alright now this is plain odd. The computer booted up all the way this time. The only thing that I did differenly was that the computer was powered down, not just rebooted. Anyone have any idea why that fixed it?

 

[SpecialEd]

computers can be moody sometimes... sometimes they just don't want to work.. and the next thing you know.. they're working fine..

I have no idea what could have fixed...