re: missing file Win Root\system32\ NTOSKRNL.EXE
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 at 5:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Geoffrey Gentry
(1 messages posted)
COMMENT :The fix presented by by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE is correct and worked very well
with my simular problem. Thanks Dan. The soultion I used was :
copy [d:]\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32
Right on! Thanks
On Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 8:38 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>According to the User's Guide for your computer, the System Recovery CD included
>with your Sony is a one-trick pony: All it can do is reformat the HDD and reinstall
>XP and the programs that came with the computer. You'll lose everything on your
>HDD if you do this.
>
>OTOH, the application and driver CDs are capable of reinstalling individual applications
>and drivers.
>
>Here's my suggestion:
>
>1. Borrow a genuine MS XP CDROM from a friend.
>
>2. Set your computer to boot from CDROM, insert the XP CD, and restart to boot
from
>it.
>
>3. At the Welcome to Windows Setup screen, press F10 to start the Recovery Console.
>
>You may want to review information about the Recovery Console at this MS KB article:
>
>Description
>of the Windows XP Recovery Console
>
>4. Provide the built-in Administrator account password.
>
>5. Copy a fresh copy of the ntoskrnl.exe file from the CD onto your HDD using this
>command:
>
>copy [d:]\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32
>
>Notes: this command assumes "c:\windows" is where XP is loaded on your hard drive,
>adjust accordingly if your computer is different; [d:] stands for the letter of
the
>cdrom drive in which the XP CD is located; the file "ntoskrnl.ex_" is a compressed
>file as indicated by the last character being an underscore character; when in Recovery
>Console, the "copy" command automatically expands compressed files on the XP CD
to
>the HDD.
>
>Type "Exit" to close the recovery console and restart your computer. Take the CD
>out of the drive so that it doesn't start from the CD again.
>
>If the problem was simply a corrupted ntoskrnl.exe file, your computer should be
>back to normal.
>
>Clean up: reset your computer's startup sequence back to the way it was; start
Help
>and Support to find out how to run Checkdisk and the Signature Verification Tool,
>and run them to make sure nothing else is wrong.
>
>As far as backup goes, there are two approaches you can take: traditional backup
>and drive imaging software. I would recommend a combination of both.
>
>For more info, the latest issue of PC
>Magazine has a review of several backup and recovery programs and tactics.
>
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