Error when scandisk set to run on boot

[Ed]

On my XP professional machine, I selected to run the
scandisk on boot option. When I rebooted, I got the
following message and a frozen machine: "Windows Could Not
Start because the following file is missing or corrupt
<windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file"
I had to do a hard power-off to do anything. On reboot,
scandisk (chkdsk) ran ok, and all seemed normal! What
should I do about the supposed missing file?

[NobodyMan]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:15:30 -0800, "Ed"
> wrote:

>On my XP professional machine, I selected to run the
>scandisk on boot option. When I rebooted, I got the
>following message and a frozen machine: "Windows Could Not
>Start because the following file is missing or corrupt
><windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
>Please re-install a copy of the above file"
>I had to do a hard power-off to do anything. On reboot,
>scandisk (chkdsk) ran ok, and all seemed normal! What
>should I do about the supposed missing file?

The post isn't valid; you can't be running scandisk on boot because:

1. Scandisk only ran within windows, while it was running, and
2. WinXP doesn't have scandisk and never did,

Now if you are talking about chkdsk.....

>-----Original Message-----
>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:15:30 -0800, "Ed"
> wrote:
>
>>On my XP professional machine, I selected to run the
>>scandisk on boot option. When I rebooted, I got the
>>following message and a frozen machine: "Windows Could
Not
>>Start because the following file is missing or corrupt
>><windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
>>Please re-install a copy of the above file"
>>I had to do a hard power-off to do anything. On reboot,
>>scandisk (chkdsk) ran ok, and all seemed normal! What
>>should I do about the supposed missing file?
>
>The post isn't valid; you can't be running scandisk on
boot because:
>
>1. Scandisk only ran within windows, while it was
running, and
>2. WinXP doesn't have scandisk and never did,
>
>Now if you are talking about chkdsk.....
>
>. I wrote "On reboot,
>>scandisk (chkdsk) ran ok, and all seemed normal!"
>Pardon me, I did refer to it as Scan disk out of habit. I
realize that it actually runs the DOS version- checkdsk,
so I noted that above! Sorry for the confusion!