Windows 2000 server missing file

[ctw4540]

I reformated windows 2000 server because it crashed. Now after the installation is finish and right when it starts to load windows 2000 it gives me an message that says <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt. How do I fix this problem. I have tried to repartion the drive and reinstall windows again but the same error message comes up every time.

[InTheWayBoy]

Then you probably have some bad hardware...ram, cpu, hd...take your pick. If you are getting errors at that low a level then it's probably not the software. You say you can get through installation, but it crashes at load. Is the CD you are installing it from a known good copy. No scratches or beta unattended install? And what kinda hardware are you running?

[ctw4540]

The hardware is listed below:

Intel P4 2.4 GHz

1GB of ram at L2 cache of 512K

I had two 80 GB hards on there but one went bad. But before I found out it was bad I had a raid controller on the computer. I took that off an set the hard drives as master/ slave config. Found out that one hard drive was bad. I took that off and it actually ran through the setup, because before with the bad hard drive it wouldn't do anything at all.

Dual ethernet connections

Onboard video

No sound card

That's about it

[InTheWayBoy]

So you had it as a RAID array, broke it down to a master/slave, then removed the bad HD and you are now getting further, but you still get stopped after the install finishes?

Hmmm...any chance you could try a different HD? Meaning, none of the previous two?

The error message you are getting...it's a black screen with white text, happens before you see the 'splash' screen?

Also, is the RAID controller still installed or configured to be in RAID mode?

[fdv]

just a theory.

open boot.ini.

see if the entry for NT is either missing or incorrect.

what happens when you switch the drive to a regular IDE controller? or you set the raid controller in the bios to be non-raid and just a regular controller, and then install and see what happens?

more info here.