Windows 2000 won't boot

[tungtung]

My fried's computer crashed this morning, when she restarted the computer there was an error that basically says that Windows cannot find the "NTOSKRNL.EXE" in the "System32" folder. I tried Windows Recovery console, but the wierd thing is that the entire D drive (that has the Win2000 seems to just well disappear).

The drive is FAT32 formatted, and the system is dual boot with Win98SE. When I go to Win98SE the system sees TWO (yupe two identical D drive, one of which is labelled as E drive) and the content of the drive and all are exactly the same, and they are all still valid. I have managed to back up the content of the drive to the other working drive.

So I tried running DISKPART in Win2000 recovery console, and the drive D is shown as unformatted, strange. I tried CHKDSK, but it says something like it has encountered several errors or something and can't continue. I'm at work now, so I can't tell you exactly what the errors were.

Any ideas (short of repartition and reformat the drive)?
I mean Win98 can still see the drive, and it seems to work just fine on it.

 

[montag451]

what was she doing when it crashed?
Has she run any antiviral/malware software recently?
If the computer was connected to net, did she use a firewall?

This is to rule out a third party prob

 

[tungtung]

She was just watching DVD before it crashes.
The computer is connected through firewall. I have done antivirus scan using Win98, and all is clear.

It seems to be a boot sector error on the D drive (the WinNT boot drive).
Thing is "CHKDSK" just won't fix it ... it was saying something like there was a volume error or something and that it can't fix it.

And just a reminder ... the drive is accessible through Win98 ... only Win2000 that don't see it.

 

[montag451]

If win 98 can use the disk ok, just copy ntoskrnl.exe into the folder it requires on the disk it requires it