Sata drive in notebook

[kknight]

Hi all,

Got a notebook with a sata drive in it that was improperly shutdown (ie lost
power entirely). It now won't boot and is coming up with the infamous
"missing or corrupted ntoskrnl.exe".

The problem is that the notebook was delivered with recovery cd's but not
the OS seperately. I have a windows xp sp2 CD from another of my machines,
however, it does not see the sata drives which I'm assuming is due to not
having the drivers. The problem with that is that NONE of my 6 computers
are equipped with floppies and my understanding is that even a USB based
floppy won't work in this case.

Anybody got any suggestions how I can get into this thing to do a repair
install of windows?

Thanks,
ken

 

[peter]

Try assesing the Recovery Console on that XP CD you have...When the Welcome
to Setup screen appears press R watch for it.
When you are prompted type in the Admin password...if the password is blank
just press enter.
This will give you a command prompt...and here is a list of commands as well
as more info on recovery console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654

You would be interested in the Expand command in order to Expand the file
from its CD/i386 location to the Windows/system32 location
peter

 

[kknight]

Thanks for the quick reply, however, as I noted in my original post, when
booting off the XP SP2 CD it does not see the SATA drives, thus if I try to
hit the recovery console it says it can't find any hard drives.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
ken

 

[peter]

Find the SATA drivers for the notebook...........put them in a folder on the
computer you are now using
Slipstream the SATA drivers into the XP CD.........................Google
how to do this as I am getting tired and sloppy
peter

 

[kknight]

Thanks

I was afraid you were going to say "slipstream".

This is directed at microsoft... "what a major pain in the @$$".

Thanks again for your assistance.
ken

 

[Bob I]

SATA came AFTER Windows XP. Whine to the notebook vendor, OR go get
Vista if you want "default" SATA support.

 

[Anna]

Thanks

I was afraid you were going to say "slipstream".

This is directed at microsoft... "what a major pain in the @$$".

Thanks again for your assistance.
ken

ken:
Since you indicate that you have the recovery CDs for the notebook would you
not be able to use those to return the machine back to its factory state?
Assuming that's possible is it that you want to salvage the programs & data
since that time and that explains your reluctance to use the recovery CDs at
this point?

Anyway, recognizing that you're in a kind of "Catch-22" situation, what
about this approach?...

Since you have six other computers (desktops?) and assuming one or more of
them has SATA capability -- why not remove the laptop's SATA HDD and install
it in one of those machines as a secondary drive, hopefully access its
contents and at least copy whatever data you need from the drive? Then
return the drive to the laptop and use your recovery CDs to reinstall the
OS. Of course you would have to reinstall the programs/applications you want
onto that drive together with the MS critical updates, etc.

Given your particular circumstances, I don't know if the above is a
practical solution to your problem but I thought I'd mention it for your
consideration.

I assume you've been in touch with the manufacturer of your notebook re this
problem.
Anna

P.S.
As you've probably discovered by now that "corrupted ntoskrnl.exe" message
can be a nasty one in that the underlying cause can be both
software/hardware related. If the cause is simply a
not-too-terribly-corrupted HDD, in many cases the chkdsk command via the
Recovery Console will straighten things out. But a defective HDD can also be
the cause of the problem. And we've come across other hardware failures as
well that caused this problem.