What To Do If Windows NTOSKRNL.exe is missing or corrupt?
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Today a user phone me that his computer couldn’t boot into Windows. From his description I thought it is hard drive problem?
Reach user side, switch on computer to verify the problem again. The actual error was
Windows could not start because the below file is missing or corrupt: C:\Winnt\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe
Restore Missing / Corrupted Files
A file corrupt is better than hard disk corrupted. Restore back the corrupted files with few steps below:
- Insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD.
- Reboot the computer, as the computer is starting you should see a message to press any key to boot from the CD. When you see this message press any key.
- In the Microsoft Windows XP setup menu press the R key to enter the recovery console. (more…)