NT boot prob," winnt40\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or is corrupted"

[HardwareAddicted]

All I did was boot to win95 (triple boot system)and check the NT partition for errors
and after this rebooting into NT or trying to boot into NT....

I went back to 95 and looked in the NT partition for this file and it was still there.

How did I corrupt this file and how do I get it back, is it ok to overright this file?

Thx guys...

 

[Cyph3r]

Since you said you went into Win95 and checked the NT partition, I'm assuming that you have installed NT on a FAT partition. As much as this allows you to access the NT partition through 95, running scandisk on it can be VERY hazerdous, as you've just learned..

One option you have is to use a repair disk(you do have one don't you!?) and attempt to fix NT with the NT CD-ROM. If you don't have this, attempt to just UPDATE your current NT installation. If these two don't work, then you will have to re-install NT..Regards

 

[zuffy]

you don't need a repair disk. Boot from the Windows NT cd... follow the prompt and select repair. When it prompts for a repair hit ESC since you don't have one... Windows NT will search for an existing version of NT and the repair folder and use that as a replacement for the missing ERD. There will be 4 choices of repair... check off only the restore original files. Restore only the ntoskrnl.exe file... answer no for the rest of system files.

If you don't to do all that... then boot to win95 and expand the ntoskrnl.exe file. If I remember so, the ntoskrnl.exe is located in the i386 folder under a different extension. Just do a search for that file and expand it to your %\winnt\system32 folder.

example:
expand e:\i386\ntoskrnl.xxx c:\winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe [enter]

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Ok guys..I will try it tomorrow when i get to work.

Yes, this is the workstation I use to admin all of the network.

I have been the admin for a whole 2 days now and now this.

Thx for all your help, I know the I386 folder is on the server, I will copy the file to the system32 folder in question and go from there.

Thx again for your help.