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I tried using the xp boot disks I made using microsoft's support site. I now get this message when I get to disk #2

ntkrnlmp.exe cannot be located.

Any way around this?

Thanks for any help that's offered

Hi cynatnite, welcome to the forum.

What version of windows are you trying to install?

XP Home.

That's what was originally on the PC from what we can see. They put up their HP Pavilion in a yard sale.

I have the recovery console and 8 recovery disks for the pavilion which is why I thought I could fix it. Couldn't get past the first message which was the missing or corrupted hal.dll. Then tried using the floppies and now I get this error.

Thanks for the welcome!

Hmm.

Well the hal.dll error is relatively easy to fix.

However, with the ntkrnlmp.exe error, i'd say the file is located on a damaged part of the cd. Make sure there's no finger prints or anything like that on the cd.