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ChampsElysees
06-17-04, 02:15 PM
Earlier this month, I had a problem where my system would reboot after the ntoskrnl.exe screen would appear. I fixed it with chkdsk in the recovery console. Now, after it worked and I rebooted to fix an Nvidia problem, it hangs on the black screen between the ntoskrnl.exe and logonui.exe screens, sits for about 3min and restarts. I did a repair from the XP cd as well as a manual copy of both the files, no luck. I can't start in safe mode either. Any help/ideas?
ChampsElysees
06-17-04, 06:29 PM
I checked today using Knoppix, and the hard drive is not corrupt. I'm running with that CD now, but it would be real nice if I could get my M$ os running again
theELVISCERATOR
06-17-04, 07:08 PM
Earlier this month, I had a problem where my system would reboot after the ntoskrnl.exe screen would appear. I fixed it with chkdsk in the recovery console. Now, after it worked and I rebooted to fix an Nvidia problem, it hangs on the black screen between the ntoskrnl.exe and logonui.exe screens, sits for about 3min and restarts. I did a repair from the XP cd as well as a manual copy of both the files, no luck. I can't start in safe mode either. Any help/ideas?

fixmbr?
Tatuya
06-17-04, 07:15 PM
Is this a dual boot system?
ChampsElysees
06-21-04, 07:21 PM
it used to have Redhat installed on a different HD, it would go to a boot menu on that drive, but I uninstalled Redhat and changed the primary boot drive back to the Windows drive...never had this problem before after that
ChampsElysees
06-21-04, 07:31 PM
i ran fixmbr, it did find a non-standard boot record, fixed it and such, but it's still not booting and the problem is still the same
ChampsElysees
06-22-04, 01:13 PM
would there be any tools on the UltimateBoot CD that would be worthwhile to look into on this?
ChampsElysees
06-24-04, 12:51 PM
Ok, so i reformatted the drive on a different computer and transferred all my files back and it ran smoothly. I put it back into my machine and it says

"Cannot boot from disk: This disk was formatted with CP Backup
Insert another disk and press any key"

What is that? Is this a problem with the motherboard? I can still boot from a CD, but this never happened before, not even when this hard drive couldn't boot. Any help?

EDIT: Now it just says

NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

What is going on here?