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wk2 - missing/corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file

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by waupoos

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So last night my machinge re-booted on it's own. When it restarted I received the message "ntoskrnl.exe file is missing or corrupt, please re-install copy" I would appreciate any ideas how this can be accomplished as I cannot start the machine.
Ona second thought, I am guessing my H/D has failed as on machine boot it is not recognized. My configuration is two H/D's. The primary has(had) the O/S and the slave has the applications and data installed. If it is the case that my primary drive hasfailed and once I purchase a new drive, what are my options for installing the O/S and keeping the data on the slave drive. I do realize I may need to re-install the applications.

Thanks

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by tduval

If no modifications were made to os (driver, peripherals, patches), try safe mode boot -f8

try fixboot and fixmbr (just a littre hope about)

else, boot on windows install cd, re-install try to repair (no hope at all, but, who knows....) and then re-install in same directory

by waupoos

No modifications were made to PC. I had tried the F8 safe mode, but the error message still occured.

by waupoos

I resolved my issues by purchasing a used H/D and installing the O/S. I then defined the Old primary drive as the secondary drive and booted the P/C. On startup the O/S recognized the problems with the drive and attempted to correct. This enabledme to retrive my email and a few other files located on the drive.
I then re-formatted the original drive and installed the O/S.

I working again, just needed a few steps to work through my solution. Not pretty, but it worked.

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