MICROSOFT DISTRIBUTES DOWNLOADABLE ERRORS...?

[ErrorCode7]

Couldn't be more disappointed with this! Needed a StartUp Disc for Windows XP Pro... found on their Downloads site that I could put it onto 6 3.5" floppies... so I did. Numbered them 1-6 as it said to, reformatted laptop, time for StartUp Discs, put the
first one in, no problem, second one in, problem! Remember this was straight from their site... the problem was... "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code 7. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit." Now I'm stuck with a laptop th
at can't even be used as a calculator all because they told me to download something that doesn't even work! Hopefully somebody here would be able to think of something creative to do. Any suggestions are appreciated, or an e-mail address to somebody in
Microsoft that might care that some of their downloads are worthless. Anything is helpful... Thanks!

[Grant]

"ErrorCode7" > wrote in message
...
> Couldn't be more disappointed with this! Needed a StartUp Disc for Windows XP
Pro... found on their Downloads site that I could put it onto 6 3.5" floppies...
so I did. Numbered them 1-6 as it said to, reformatted laptop, time for StartUp
Discs, put the first one in, no problem, second one in, problem! Remember this
was straight from their site... the problem was... "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not
be loaded. The error code 7. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit."
Now I'm stuck with a laptop that can't even be used as a calculator all because
they told me to download something that doesn't even work! Hopefully somebody
here would be able to think of something creative to do. Any suggestions are
appreciated, or an e-mail address to somebody in Microsoft that might care that
some of their downloads are worthless. Anything is helpful... Thanks!

I'm not exactly sure what error code 7 means, but my best guess would be that
one of your floppy disks has some bad sectors on it. Can your laptop not boot
from the cd itself?

[Grant]

"Grant" > wrote in message
ble.rogers.com...

> I'm not exactly sure what error code 7 means, but my best guess would be that
> one of your floppy disks has some bad sectors on it. Can your laptop not boot
> from the cd itself?
>
>

Oh, I forgot to mention that if your laptop can't boot from a cd, this site:
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ has a boot manager you can install on a single
floppy disk that allows you to boot from cd, even on computers that don't
support it.

[Epona]

ErrorCode7 wrote:
> Couldn't be more disappointed with this! Needed a StartUp Disc for
> Windows XP Pro... found on their Downloads site that I could put it
> onto 6 3.5" floppies... so I did. Numbered them 1-6 as it said to,
> reformatted laptop, time for StartUp Discs, put the first one in, no
> problem, second one in, problem! Remember this was straight from
> their site... the problem was... "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be
> loaded. The error code 7. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to
> exit." Now I'm stuck with a laptop that can't even be used as a
> calculator all because they told me to download something that
> doesn't even work! Hopefully somebody here would be able to think of
> something creative to do. Any suggestions are appreciated, or an
> e-mail address to somebody in Microsoft that might care that some of
> their downloads are worthless. Anything is helpful... Thanks!

Ah, another moron who blames MS instead of considering the (correct)
possibility - which is that the disk is bad.

Why on earth are you bothering with floppies - change the boot sequence to
boot from the CD.

[purplehaz]

You should always check the boot disks before formatting to make sure that
they work and it will boot to the disks. Not testing first is a bad idea as
you have found out. You have a bad floppy disk. Either boot to the xp cd to
install, or get new floppies, or get a single xp boot disk here:
www.bootdisk.com

ErrorCode7 wrote:
> Couldn't be more disappointed with this! Needed a StartUp Disc for
> Windows XP Pro... found on their Downloads site that I could put it
> onto 6 3.5" floppies... so I did. Numbered them 1-6 as it said to,
> reformatted laptop, time for StartUp Discs, put the first one in, no
> problem, second one in, problem! Remember this was straight from
> their site... the problem was... "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be
> loaded. The error code 7. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to
> exit." Now I'm stuck with a laptop that can't even be used as a
> calculator all because they told me to download something that
> doesn't even work! Hopefully somebody here would be able to think of
> something creative to do. Any suggestions are appreciated, or an
> e-mail address to somebody in Microsoft that might care that some of
> their downloads are worthless. Anything is helpful... Thanks!

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Why even bother using floppy disks, which are notoriously
unreliable, even fresh out of the box?

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered
the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of
the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of
boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


Bruce Chambers

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"ErrorCode7" > wrote in message
...
> Couldn't be more disappointed with this! Needed a StartUp Disc for
Windows XP Pro... found on their Downloads site that I could put it
onto 6 3.5" floppies... so I did. Numbered them 1-6 as it said to,
reformatted laptop, time for StartUp Discs, put the first one in, no
problem, second one in, problem! Remember this was straight from
their site... the problem was... "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be
loaded. The error code 7. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to
exit." Now I'm stuck with a laptop that can't even be used as a
calculator all because they told me to download something that doesn't
even work! Hopefully somebody here would be able to think of
something creative to do. Any suggestions are appreciated, or an
e-mail address to somebody in Microsoft that might care that some of
their downloads are worthless. Anything is helpful... Thanks!

[Lloyd LaBaw]

can't you use your xp cd for booting, set or bios to be able to boot from cd
as first option of booting order.

"ErrorCode7" > wrote in message
...
> Couldn't be more disappointed with this! Needed a StartUp Disc for
Windows XP Pro... found on their Downloads site that I could put it onto 6
3.5" floppies... so I did. Numbered them 1-6 as it said to, reformatted
laptop, time for StartUp Discs, put the first one in, no problem, second one
in, problem! Remember this was straight from their site... the problem
was... "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code 7. Setup
cannot continue. Press any key to exit." Now I'm stuck with a laptop that
can't even be used as a calculator all because they told me to download
something that doesn't even work! Hopefully somebody here would be able to
think of something creative to do. Any suggestions are appreciated, or an
e-mail address to somebody in Microsoft that might care that some of their
downloads are worthless. Anything is helpful... Thanks!