I’ve been using computers I’ve built for the past 4 years and felt that my Hard Disk was in need of replacing, I picked up a new 200GB hard disk for the system and went up formatting the drive ready to install Windows.
Everything has been running fine until I get around to installing either my Nvidia 66.91 gfx card drivers or Windows Service Pack 2. After installing either of the above after the computer reboot the computer no longer loads windows in any way what so ever. After running the recovery console I find a missing ‘\system32\ntoskrnl.exe’. however after I replace this the system still wont boot.
I ran CHKDSK /r to try and fix the issue, it found several issues with the disk but said it repaired them all. however on rebooting the system I am still left with the problem of getting stuck in the windows loading screen.
The system completely locks up and nothing can be done. cant even open the CD drive. I would assume this was a MB issue as it is happening now with both Hard Disks as i tried to install to my old hard disk with the same issue arrising. However the MB in general is running with no issues what so ever until the installation of either the nvidia drivers or the Service pack 2.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated as I’ve been trying to work out the issue now for the past 3 days.