Hi Team 2000,
I recently bought a Dell Optiplex, licensed for Win XP, but with Win2K installed. I made an image copy of all partitions before booting up the system, so I am hoping that I have a usable Win2K Pre-eXecution-Environment.
1. I want to upgrade the original HD with a pair of 160 GB ATA133 drives and PATA/SATA controller. I have moved one of the HDs into position, loaded and tried a couple of older Windows images. Win9x boots up fine. Not surprisingly when I "slam" partitions, sometimes I have to refresh the Direct Drive Overlay to handle drives larger than 137 MB - okay. When I load and boot the Win2K PXE image, I get a message "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrrupt - please re-install".
From hints in Windows KB, I am soon on a path to build a Win2K boot/repair diskette. Is it possible to fix the boot process (as opposed to doing a proper install with a Win2K CD, which I do not have)?
Thanks,
qdvx
I recently bought a Dell Optiplex, licensed for Win XP, but with Win2K installed. I made an image copy of all partitions before booting up the system, so I am hoping that I have a usable Win2K Pre-eXecution-Environment.
1. I want to upgrade the original HD with a pair of 160 GB ATA133 drives and PATA/SATA controller. I have moved one of the HDs into position, loaded and tried a couple of older Windows images. Win9x boots up fine. Not surprisingly when I "slam" partitions, sometimes I have to refresh the Direct Drive Overlay to handle drives larger than 137 MB - okay. When I load and boot the Win2K PXE image, I get a message "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrrupt - please re-install".
From hints in Windows KB, I am soon on a path to build a Win2K boot/repair diskette. Is it possible to fix the boot process (as opposed to doing a proper install with a Win2K CD, which I do not have)?
Thanks,
qdvx
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