screen of death

[robertdwhite]

Installing w2k. As soon as the machine is to the point of installing the system when you hit return you get stop 0x00000023 (0x00e00c8,0xbfcf5128,0xbfcf4d80,0x80422bbd) address 80411bbd base at 80400000 datastop 3d363A77 -ntoskrnl.exe

can anyone tell me what this is and what to do???

[Archer]

0x00000023: FAT_FILE_SYSTEM - Naturally caused by a FAT file system problem. If this is the first time you have booted after installing new hardware, remove the hardware and boot again.

Is this a new system,new/old drive more info please?

[robertdwhite]

Is this a new system,new/old drive more info please?

this is a system being rebuilt. It is a different motherboard being installed in a system where the motherboard died. The system will boot to a 98 startup disk and write to the hard drive. It obviously reads from the cd so not too sure what is wrong.

[Ferrit]

Did you just install the new motherboard and then without reloading win2k just boot to the old install of win2k on the harddrive?

[TripleRLtd]

Did you just install the new motherboard and then without reloading win2k just boot to the old install of win2k on the harddrive?

I'd bet that's the case here.

[robertdwhite]

I'd bet that's the case here.

No in this case guys you missed. I reformatted the drive using a win 98 start up disk. I think from the stop code a fat error that that may be the problem. It seems to indicate that some file or handler is out of date. I am not sure how to format a system to ntfs without windows up. Any recommendations?

[TripleRLtd]

What size is the hard drive robert? Did fdisk show it properly? Did you remove the old NTFS partition?
Also, why not just run Win2k and let it do all the work? Why even use a 98 boot disk? Am I missing something?

[robertdwhite]

We had rebuilt the machine and wanted to start out clean. Maybe I should have just let the 2k install and done everything from there.... but. The disk was previously fat 32 also. Perhaps I should fdisk again and start from there? But now when I boot to the disk as soon as it starts to install before I have the option to do anything the BSOD. Recommendation?

[TripleRLtd]

Yeah, perhaps you should have.
When you boot to what disk? 2k install cd?
If so, you'll need to fdisk again.
Check this out:
http://www.pctoday.com/techsupport/d...&ErrorID=23357

[robertdwhite]

Roger. You had it exactly right. Last night I fdisked then let the w2k install disk do the whole thing. That got me beyond the STOP error problem and on to the next one. Thanks so much folks I really do appreciate the help you all give every time.