Laptop HDD

[steelguy]

I received a dead laptop with error ntoskrnl.exe corrupt. There is no working optical drive so unable to use recovery on laptop. I used an adapter and hooked up the laptop hdd on my desktop cpu. My comp. shows drive letters e: and f:. E: reads directory corrupt and unable to read disk, f: reads unformatted. If i hook up the laptop hdd by itself windows does not detect the hdd when booting from XP disc. If I am unable to access the hdd from second cpu is the laptop hdd bad. Can it be saved?

 

[kimsland]

Requires partition removed (part of Windows setup)
And an external CD/DVD drive to install Windows

 

[steelguy]

When I use an external usb dvd drive windows install makes it to installing enhanced host controller. Then message shows up 'the file usbohci.sys is corrupted' then prompts to press any key to reboot as set up has failed.

 

[kimsland]

Either unplug all USB devices before installing Windows (including mouse)
Or disable USB in cmos and install again (turning USB in cmos back on, once Windows is installed)