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While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.



 
 
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  #1  
Old July 11th 06, 02:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Kevin J. Nielsen
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Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

I have Windows XP installed on drive 0, partition 1, formatted ntfs. I have
formatted partition 3 as fat32
and made it primary as well (partition 2 is ntfs). I have a 2nd hard drive
that is a sata with 2 partitions
formatted ntfs. I am using a boot manager called "Graphical Boot manager"
or GAG. I set it to boot to my fat32 drive and proceeeded to install
Windows ME on that drive. During setup, when it tries to reboot for the 1st
time, I get the error "Cannot find or load krnl386.exe, access to the file
denied, system halted" I booted to XP and copied the file to the root
folder and to the \windows folder. When I tried to boot ME again I received
the same message again.


I have an ASUS K8V deluxe motherboard with an AMD 64 3200+ processor and 1.5
GB Ram.


Anyone have any suggestions?

Thank You

Kevin Nielsen


  #2  
Old July 11th 06, 03:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Check with the GAG web site/documentation how to do what you are trying to
do. I don't use GAG but rather BiNG (www.bootitng.com) and to do what you
are trying to do one needs to configure the boot manager appropriately.
It would appear that on rebooting the system is attempting to access the
incorrect partition.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

I have Windows XP installed on drive 0, partition 1, formatted ntfs. I
have formatted partition 3 as fat32
and made it primary as well (partition 2 is ntfs). I have a 2nd hard
drive that is a sata with 2 partitions
formatted ntfs. I am using a boot manager called "Graphical Boot
manager" or GAG. I set it to boot to my fat32 drive and proceeeded
to install Windows ME on that drive. During setup, when it tries to
reboot for the 1st time, I get the error "Cannot find or load
krnl386.exe, access to the file denied, system halted" I booted to
XP and copied the file to the root folder and to the \windows folder.
When I tried to boot ME again I received the same message again.


I have an ASUS K8V deluxe motherboard with an AMD 64 3200+ processor
and 1.5 GB Ram.


Anyone have any suggestions?

Thank You

Kevin Nielsen


  #3  
Old July 12th 06, 04:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Kevin J. Nielsen
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 11
Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

Thank you for your suggestion, the GAG website had no useful information. I
used fdisk and made that partition active and tried to install windows me on
that partition but I got the same error. I tried your boot program
"bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?

Thank You

Kevin


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Anyone have any suggestions?


Check with the GAG web site/documentation how to do what you are trying to
do. I don't use GAG but rather BiNG (www.bootitng.com) and to do what you
are trying to do one needs to configure the boot manager appropriately. It
would appear that on rebooting the system is attempting to access the
incorrect partition.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

I have Windows XP installed on drive 0, partition 1, formatted ntfs. I
have formatted partition 3 as fat32
and made it primary as well (partition 2 is ntfs). I have a 2nd hard
drive that is a sata with 2 partitions
formatted ntfs. I am using a boot manager called "Graphical Boot
manager" or GAG. I set it to boot to my fat32 drive and proceeeded
to install Windows ME on that drive. During setup, when it tries to
reboot for the 1st time, I get the error "Cannot find or load
krnl386.exe, access to the file denied, system halted" I booted to
XP and copied the file to the root folder and to the \windows folder.
When I tried to boot ME again I received the same message again.


I have an ASUS K8V deluxe motherboard with an AMD 64 3200+ processor
and 1.5 GB Ram.


Anyone have any suggestions?

Thank You

Kevin Nielsen




  #4  
Old July 12th 06, 07:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Posts: 2,047
Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

I
tried your boot program "bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?


I'm sorry but other than your possibly having failed to follow the
documentation, no.
--
Mike Maltby



Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion, the GAG website had no useful
information. I used fdisk and made that partition active and tried
to install windows me on that partition but I got the same error. I
tried your boot program "bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?


  #5  
Old July 12th 06, 06:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
korbendallis
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Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your first
partition and XP must be installed last (on second partition). Otherwise
important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx

korbendallis

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I
tried your boot program "bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?


I'm sorry but other than your possibly having failed to follow the
documentation, no.
--
Mike Maltby



Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion, the GAG website had no useful
information. I used fdisk and made that partition active and tried
to install windows me on that partition but I got the same error. I
tried your boot program "bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?




  #6  
Old July 12th 06, 06:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Noel Paton
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Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

Using a proper Partition Manager means that you can avoid this type of
problem - so long as you follow their instructions!!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"korbendallis" wrote in message
...
According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your first
partition and XP must be installed last (on second partition). Otherwise
important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx

korbendallis

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I
tried your boot program "bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?


I'm sorry but other than your possibly having failed to follow the
documentation, no.
--
Mike Maltby



Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion, the GAG website had no useful
information. I used fdisk and made that partition active and tried
to install windows me on that partition but I got the same error. I
tried your boot program "bootitng" and I got the same error again.

any other ideas?





  #7  
Old July 12th 06, 07:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Posts: 2,047
Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your
first partition


This is only the case if you wish to use Microsoft's somewhat pathetic
attempt of a boot manager. Using a proper boot manager such as BING or
even Boot Magic then no such restriction applies but you do need to read
the relevant documentation.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx


100% irrelevant to this thread.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



korbendallis wrote:

According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your
first partition and XP must be installed last (on second partition).
Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be
overwritten.
Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx

  #8  
Old July 13th 06, 03:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Kevin J. Nielsen
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Posts: 11
Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

I would have tried that if I needed a dual boot before I installed windows
xp but now that I have windows xp installed, I am not going to start over
and re-install it again after installing windows me. The boot managers
claim that windows me can be installed on any partition but perhaps they all
lie.


Kevin


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your
first partition


This is only the case if you wish to use Microsoft's somewhat pathetic
attempt of a boot manager. Using a proper boot manager such as BING or
even Boot Magic then no such restriction applies but you do need to read
the relevant documentation.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx


100% irrelevant to this thread.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



korbendallis wrote:

According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your
first partition and XP must be installed last (on second partition).
Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be
overwritten.
Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx



  #9  
Old July 13th 06, 03:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Noel Paton
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Posts: 273
Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

It can be installed on any partition - but it has to *think* it's on the
fist partition in the HD. It's here that third-party boot managers come into
their own, as they can hide other partitions for this purpose

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Kevin J. Nielsen" wrote in message
...
I would have tried that if I needed a dual boot before I installed windows
xp but now that I have windows xp installed, I am not going to start over
and re-install it again after installing windows me. The boot managers
claim that windows me can be installed on any partition but perhaps they
all lie.


Kevin


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your
first partition


This is only the case if you wish to use Microsoft's somewhat pathetic
attempt of a boot manager. Using a proper boot manager such as BING or
even Boot Magic then no such restriction applies but you do need to read
the relevant documentation.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx


100% irrelevant to this thread.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



korbendallis wrote:

According to the MS website, Win ME needs to be installed on your
first partition and XP must be installed last (on second partition).
Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be
overwritten.
Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...e/meandxp.mspx




  #10  
Old July 13th 06, 03:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Posts: 2,047
Default While installing Windows ME for dual boot, system halted.

The boot managers claim that windows me can be installed on any
partition but perhaps they all lie.


They don't lie, but rather you really do need to read the documentation
that comes with the various third party boot managers. One clue is to
hide all the other partitions containing operating systems when adding
another.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

I would have tried that if I needed a dual boot before I installed
windows xp but now that I have windows xp installed, I am not going
to start over and re-install it again after installing windows me. The
boot managers claim that windows me can be installed on any
partition but perhaps they all lie.


 




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