system32/ ntoskrnl.exe is missing or cor

I would try to make a boot disk for NTFS first and try booting up the machine that way. Just do a full format on a floppy from a NT machine and copy Ntldr, Ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it. You have to modify the Boot.ini file to corispond with the drive(s) partition(s) configuration. Look at Microsoft's site and do a search for the Microsoft link Q119467 for help on this.

Look at Q121517 How to recover from a corrupt NTFS Boot sector. It states to use Norton's Diskedit.exe utility as a means to fix the problem. "But they won't be responsible if it doesn't work because it is not a Microsoft produce." You got to love that.

Look at the Q155892 Windows NT Boot problem: Kernel File is Missing from the Disk.

Hopefully one ofthese or a link in one of these will help you.

You'll get this error when path in the boot.ini file to the system folder is wrong.Or it may be your ntoskrnl.exe itself is corrupt.Other two reasons are boot sector viruses and hard disk problems.if it ntoskrnl is corrupt it's better to do a reinstallation to a different folder and copy the profiles and other settings.repairing the OS through setup may solve the problem but it
is safer to do a parallel installation.

Regds
anoop

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