btkrnl.sys on Safe Mode

snappieT

I installed the 250GB hard drive I got from Lidl into my system yesterday, along with another HD i had lying around.

Now when I boot up, windows just stays loading with the bar moving across the bottom. BIOS now only recognises my Hard Drives, not my Optical drives (I have 4 IDE ports with 2 devices on each, except for the last one which has one HD)

I tried going into safe mode, and it stops on btkrnl.sys - apparently the BlueTooth core application.

It makes no sense!!!!!!!!!!

Any help much appreciated

Sherifu

I picked up that lidl hard drive too.
Good value for money

I installed it as slave to my 80GB hard drive.
I have two optical drives on other ide cable.
The obvious thing is have you the hardware connected properly
with the proper connections on ide cable and jumper settings correct?

Cable should be if i can recall:
blue to motherboard
grey to slave
black to master

However your xp boots up?
And is missing this bluetooth driver file?
Have you any more info?
You should defo douuble check physical conns.

Let me know how you do

snappieT

yeah, all the jumpers and connections are right

I have a primary IDE and secondard IDE on my Mobo, then a primary and secondary on a PCI controller

MOBO: Primary: Master: 60GB HDD
Slave: 250GB HDD
Second: Master: DVD Reader
Slave: CD R/W
PCI: Primary: Master: 40GB Maxtor (Media Drive)
Slave: 40GB Maxtor (Empty)
Second: Empty (Awaiting DVD Burner)


The new stuff is the 250GB drive and the empty 40GB Maxtor. No reason why bluetooth would stop windows starting properly.....


Any other ideas.


I haven't had a chance to try disconnect and reboot yet

Sherifu

If its still freezing after checking the physical conns you could try a repair install if you have the xp disk.

snappieT

rmulryan wrote:

If its still freezing after checking the physical conns you could try a repair install if you have the xp disk.

Good idea - thanks