dandino
09-09-2003, 04:58 PM
Hi all
I have a friend who has just built a PC system with 2 SATA drives. He installed Win XP and all was ok for a few days. After a few days of running with no problems he booted the PC and got the following errors:
<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Cannot start windows, missing or corrupt file, please replace or repair.
After rebooting all was ok until a few days later when he got the same message again on startup. We checked in the system32 directory and the file was there. Also the file could'nt have been corrupt because when rebooted XP loaded without problems. We assumed that this might be the result of a faulty disk so he swaped the disk for an identical one (Segate ATA, 160 gig) and reinstalled XP on it. One again all was ok for a day or so and then suddenly when starting the PC one morning he got the following error message:-
A disk read error has ocurred, Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.
He restarted and so far today all is ok. We realise the chances of 2 disks being faulty is very remote. I am wondering if this is something to do with using SATA disks. The technollogy is still very new.
Does anyone have any idea what could have caused these error messages, bearing in mind that in both instances, they occurred just after a fresh install?
Any help greatly appreciated
Dan hawkes
I have a friend who has just built a PC system with 2 SATA drives. He installed Win XP and all was ok for a few days. After a few days of running with no problems he booted the PC and got the following errors:
<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Cannot start windows, missing or corrupt file, please replace or repair.
After rebooting all was ok until a few days later when he got the same message again on startup. We checked in the system32 directory and the file was there. Also the file could'nt have been corrupt because when rebooted XP loaded without problems. We assumed that this might be the result of a faulty disk so he swaped the disk for an identical one (Segate ATA, 160 gig) and reinstalled XP on it. One again all was ok for a day or so and then suddenly when starting the PC one morning he got the following error message:-
A disk read error has ocurred, Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.
He restarted and so far today all is ok. We realise the chances of 2 disks being faulty is very remote. I am wondering if this is something to do with using SATA disks. The technollogy is still very new.
Does anyone have any idea what could have caused these error messages, bearing in mind that in both instances, they occurred just after a fresh install?
Any help greatly appreciated
Dan hawkes