NTLDR/NTKRNLMP.EXE problem

[Indigo340]

Hi, I'm having touble trying to load my OS onto a clean formatted HDD.

When I boot up, my PC reads from the floppy boot disc and checks my hardware config then asks for disc 2 (of 6), I load disc 2 and get "NTKRNLMP.EXE is missing, error code 7" and can't get any further. So I try to load XP pro from CD ROM and get "NTLDR is missing" and can't get any further.
I have read that either of these could be caused by memory faults but if my RAM was faulty I wouldn't be able to use the PC at all, I am using the same PC now with a different HDD and same OS.

How can I get round this ?

Can I use one copy of Win XP pro on this HDD to load a diferent copy of XP Pro onto another drive ie. in Windows ?


ABIT AT7MAX2, AMD Athlon XP 2600+ thourorbred core, XP pro, DDR 400 1Gb. Maxtor Diamond Max 9

Your first error is probably just from bad media. Try creating the disks again.

Your second error is probably because it's not set to boot from CD-ROM First in your BIOS. Check and make sure it is.

You could have bad RAM and everything still seem to work okay. Memtest86 is a good RAM tester.

And if I understand your question about using a copy on a HDD to load it onto another, No, you'd have to have a copy of the XP CD on the HDD to load it.

[Indigo340]

Hi EvilRick, thanks for your response.

First the discs worked fine two days ago they were newly created then. But I will try to create new ones.

Second I have set it to boot from FDD first then changed to boot from CD-ROM (now back to FDD).

I will try Memtest again thanks for the reminder.

I will copy the XP cd to HDD and try to load it from there cheers.

You just need to copy the "I386" folder to your HDD to install it.

[Indigo340]

So just copying the i386 folder to a blank HDD will solve the problem ?

[Indigo340]

I haven't tried this yet because I haven't had the time to strip my PC and re-install the second HDD etc as it has been in use and also because I am a little doubtful of it's success.

Anyone else got a better idea or at least a bit more information on copying the i386 folder to a blank HDD ?

[Indigo340]

Well I can now confirm that copying the i386 folder to a balnk formatted hard drive does not solve the problem (unfortunately).

I still get the message ;
"ntkrnlmp.exe could not be found and setup cannot continue, error code 7)

Any more suggestions welcome.

[Indigo340]

Memtest86 failed to find any problems with RAM.

Will try to make new boot disks next.

[Indigo340]

AV scan of boot discs and a full re-make of boot disc set solved the problem.