ntoskrnl.exe is lost or hosed

[Kevin Bolster]

Hi

My MS Word 2000 crashed yesterday and just after I did my
duty and sent the report via the web my system crashed
completly. (I have a HP laptop - Athlon 4 -XP Home -
purchased in Nov 2001)

I turned off my machine and then tried to reboot. After
much time a message came up saying that my ntoskrnl.exe
was missing or corrupted and that I needed to reload it.

Problem is that the only way to reload it seems to make
me re-format my whole disk using the HP provided Restore
disk. Does anyone know af a way I can boot into my
machine and simply copy the bad files over???

The ntoskrnl.exe on a seperate system is about 1.8 MB so
that will add to the fun.

Thanks

Kevin Bolster

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Kevin,

You might want to see if this helps:

"Hardware Configuration Problem" Err Msg Starting Windows [Q314477]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314477

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Kevin Bolster" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> My MS Word 2000 crashed yesterday and just after I did my
> duty and sent the report via the web my system crashed
> completly. (I have a HP laptop - Athlon 4 -XP Home -
> purchased in Nov 2001)
>
> I turned off my machine and then tried to reboot. After
> much time a message came up saying that my ntoskrnl.exe
> was missing or corrupted and that I needed to reload it.
>
> Problem is that the only way to reload it seems to make
> me re-format my whole disk using the HP provided Restore
> disk. Does anyone know af a way I can boot into my
> machine and simply copy the bad files over???
>
> The ntoskrnl.exe on a seperate system is about 1.8 MB so
> that will add to the fun.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin Bolster