Hmm, no responses.. so to help the group to help you;

How about some information related to:

What motherboard - make/model.

What make and model hard drive, and is it SATA.or PATA, etc.. What is the
old drive, make and model, SATA/PATA

What had you [both recent and just] installed when the error first occurred
[driver,application, etc.]

The exact error message.

Safe mode runs just base system drivers so likely the issue relates to
something that was installed, hence the reason for the above. Kernel errors
can be caused by numerous things from: other corrupted files, corrupted
registry, to even a corrupted swap file, so we have to back-track through
what occurred prior to the issue.
Also, what system did you FIRST attempt to use after the change over [98 or
2000]...

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| Hopefully this won't get too longwinded, but as a bit of background, I
| recently upgraded my hardware and wanted to keep all the software as
| before. I installed a new M.B. and CPU to go from a 600MHz Pentium 3
| unit to a 2.6 GHz Celeron unit. Also I cloned over the multiboot
| OS's from drive 1 to another HD, since the older one was showing signs
| of failing. The program used for cloning was Acronis True Image.
| There were 3 OS's on Drive 1, and they also are now on the newly
| installed HDD. The heart of the multiboot system is Powerquest's Boot
| Magic, that has worked wonderfully for years. The 3 OS's are DOS 6.22
| (rarely used anymore), Windows 98SE (most heavily used) and Windows
| 2000 Pro (used somewhat).
|
| The problem developed subsequent to several days of allowing the new
| M.B. and CPU to install all its drivers, etc.
|
| Essentially, I cannot boot up (on the NEW Hard Disk 1) into Win98SE in
| Normal mode - I get an error message that says "Error loading KERNEL.
| You must reinstall Windows". BUT - much to my annoyance, it WILL
| boot up fully in SAFE mode. Nothing that I've tried has cleared up
| this anomaly. I've followed the procedure found on MS's web site
| which tells me to "extract Kernel32.dll" from my installation CD and
| copy it to the folder Windows\System\, all to no avail, after multiple
| efforts. In addition, I've copied it over from the presumed "failing"
| hard drive, again with no success. I'm about ready to throw in the
| towel - hopefully, someone can give me an out. Before someone asks,
| there is NO problem booting up in Win2000 on this drive.
|
| Finally, as a further frustating fact, I can still do the multiboot if
| I swap out the new HD 1 to the old failing one. But I don't trust it
| lasting much longer.
|
| I'm admittedly out of ideas - and if it should be a problem with the
| MBR, then I don't know how to repair it.
|
| Sorry it got this long - and it may not have all the useful info
| someone might think would lead to a clue. If so, please tell me what
| to check.
|
| Thanks, Olin McDaniel
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