How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Elizabeth23's post on July 5, Chkdsk brought up errors and deleted files.
I'm running chkdsk again and will continue to chkdsk is still running as I write this as recommended in the above post. The first chkdsk produced many files as unreadable or deleted corrupt attributes. Will the deletions cause a problem or is this what is needed in order to proceed to the next step in fixing the missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.
Was unable to boot into the XP recovery console from the Windows XP disc, but was able to boot from mini Windows XP on a separate disc created by a friend. I'm not quite sure what exactly mini Windows XP is, but chkdsk is checking for errors. Is it possible the ntoskrnl. That is the last thing my computer did prior to being powered off via the startup menu in my original post above.
What is the next step after chkdsk? In reply to MSeekingHelp's post on July 14, In reply to Elizabeth23's post on July 14, So I've run chkdsk a couple of times. I have an XP recovery disk, but I'd like to hear how to proceed with this step.
I've never recovered from a PC, so detailed directions would be super helpful! Also, wanted to add what my friend summarized about what we've tried so far. I hope it clarifies what has been done a bit better. Also available to us is a SpinRite 6. It results in a BSOD blue screen of death. Unless there is a problem with the memory it is trying to load into?
What do you think? Also, when we boot into Hiren's, and load Mini XP, it will not allow access to the hard drive. If the boot. To restore the original boot. If you do not have an ERD, you cannot follow these steps. If the ntoskrnl. To restore this file, follow the steps below. Remove the hard drive, change the pins to make it a slave. Obtain another hard drive to use as primary. Once booted, detect the second drive and either copy a new NTOS kernel, or follow the MS instructions on using the recovery console.
Often bootup location is corrupted as well. I don't have the exact same problem, but when running a scan with AVG 7. I'm running Vista Premium 32 bit. Am also getting the same Problem. Iam from Portugal, sorry about my mystakes writing Find 10 erros to solved After that I install spybot search and distroy them we find 81 entries Please re-install a copy of the above file.
I try already do that but after I press R appears a blue screen with a msg that said I dont have a HD and I could not go to recovery console How can I put into this HD a clean copy of the ntoskrnl. If you continue to power on and off eventually it will boot. It will not boot from A: or C: which prevents running repair.
This condition has existed for two days and I am finally having time to work on it. The subject message appeared tonight and I was directed to this site via google. Looks like a great sight so I joined up and found your posting and wonder if you have any other suggestions? Solution: Try lowering the primary partition your initial operating system is loaded on.
Then re-install as planned. Anyways, I tried many things including: expanding ntoskrnl. Well, not until I manually made a change lower the partition , did I resolve my problem. Before I made this change to the partition, windows configured the boot. I have done this many times before.
But for whatever reasons this error arrives, I got it to go away from manually making a change and simply not using the recommended settings when I installed. It's just habit to try and squeeze every bit of space when installing. Just out of my curiosity, I had this same problem when I tried to reboot my comp.
It just freezed in the middle of rebooting the comp and it says that my ntoskrnl. So what I did was unplugging my hard disk from its data cable, and plugging it back to the cable, and the same with the power cable that is connected to the hard disk.
And it fixed it Just need to know why the file got corrupted in the first place and could be fixed by unplugging the data cable and plugging it back to the hd, so that when this thing happens again I know what to do not only guessing like I did. Forgot the Administrator Password? Personally, I use Austrumi. Now of course.. I have the same problem with a Windows XP Tablet edition. Both of them are miles away in Singapore and i'm currently in the United States. The only way i can think of is to boot from a USB flash drive.
Am new here and from a little quaint country called England and I have a rather annoying problem, well 2 annoying problems to be exact.. I came into my work this morning where I am the only desktop support person and was called in as their notes server was down. Had a look at the screen.. We tried the RC but we have a Compaq Proliant server and these are touchy if all the drivers arent correct and we seemed to have lost a lot of files.
It ended up being a fresh install Restored all backed up data about 55Gb which took 3 hours. The ntldr file was misssing competley. We created a boot disk with the ntldr and boot. So at the moment using the boot disk to keep us running.. I get the same ntoskrnl. Can anyone help? I also tried doing the following by placing one MS-Dos disk in the floppy drive to get a command prompt. I have a very similar problem. I have the exact same issue as described above except mine's with not XP.
I have successfully completed several of the repair steps as described above but I have one glaring obstical. Please reinstall a copy of the above file. I was able to instal 2k pro on another partician.
I got online, found this forum etc. I fixed my boot. I did exactly like what U wrote and it worked but then when I restart my comp the same problem came back. I reinstall my windows and guess what after installing SP-2 all of a sudden this problem came back.
If not insert your XP installation cd and type that command at the command prompt. What did they get using checkdisk? If they are unsuccessful using system recovery it may be a problem with the disk itself.
EXE problem on the internet. EXE ". The error may be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent Bootcfg from successfully scanning. I've tried a couple of manual edits of BOOT. INI, trying different partition numbers, etc. Nothing helped, so I put it back the way it originally was.
EXE has completely vanished. It's really frustrating Does anyone else have any experience or advice regarding this? I've spent the whole weekend trying to get my computer resuscitated, and I'm starting to worry that I'll have to reinstall everything and lose important files! I took the time to read and skim through all 9 pages of the postings on this thread and found that my error is somewhat unique to what everyone else is experiencing. I'm running WIN2K. I'm not sure if it's Pro or not.
Does it matter? I know it's not server or workstation. Anyway, I hadn't had the computer online since May, and just recently put it back online and almost immediately got a virus before i could even update my virus files and download windows security updates. It would freeze after i entered my login and password into windows. I got around it by just changing the password. I tried running the virus scan and it would freeze when scanning this particular directory. I don't remember which it was, but i seem to think it was in the system32 folder somewhere.
So i just ran the virus check on every other directory, and it found nothing, but continued ot lock up if i went to a full system scan. So i took my computer back off the internet and now about 2 weeks later of little to no trouble with it, i ran into another problem:.
Out of nowhere, my computer locked up in windows and i rebooted and now get the error everyone here's been talking about:. I don't have a windows 2K CD readily available, though i can have my brother mail me his so i downloaded off a website the 4 floppy boot disks so that i could at least run setup of windows.
But at the final blue screen, when i hit C to enter recovery console, instead of it asking me which windows installation i would like to login to, and then asking for the administrator password, it just takes me to a command prompt directly. So then i tried a repair installation, thinking it wouldn't be a big deal to lose the windows updates, etc. I don't know if any other aspect of windows is the same, other than they're both 2K. The steps i followed were at this link:. Each try ended with the same result.
After i inserted the ERD, and pressed enter, or after i said i did not have an ERD, instead of saying it found windows in the following folder, it said. When i press enter, it does nothing, and i have to restart the setup, which takes me right back to where i started. Do i need the actual Windows 2K CD to do a repair installation? Because as stated, I'm just using 4 floppy boot disks to get into windows setup.
I'm quite lost on what to do. Any help would be appreciated. And thank you in advance for your time and effort. If you do a repair installation of Windows XP? Hi I have been reading this msg board and am having a similar problem. I had the usual by the sounds of everyones problems problem of a corrupt or missing ntoskrnl file.
I cured that by using the recovery console on the XP install disk and expanding the file from the cd to C:. However here is the rub on restarting XP kept rebooting on start up so I went into the repair a windows setup and now I get the following error. I'm having pretty much the same symptoms as many others who have posted in this topic - the dreaded "ntoskrnl. Here's my situation:. Drive is partitioned strangely, but for all intents and purposes Win2k is on the D: drive, which the "Recovery Console" command MAP reports to be partition 4.
Windows has been working just fine for years, until I decided to mess with it this afternoon and I really seem to have screwed it up badly.
What I tried to do: System is desperately low on disk space, especially on D:, the system drive. BIG mistake. What it did: It wanted to reinstall a bunch of files from the "SP4 CD", which doesn't exist and never has. I had upgraded to SP4 a long time ago, not from a CD, and did not keep the installer due to - you guessed it - low disk space. Now I'm getting the ntoskrnl. INI file does point at the correct drive 'Partition 4 ' , but I've tried modifying it anyway both on the HD and on a FD created as described several posts back with no success.
I'm at my wit's end here because it looks like all the necessary files are in the right places, and it still won't boot.
If you've read this far, thanks, and I hope someone can point out something else I can try. I really don't want to lose this installation. If you have the emergency repair disk ERD you created boot from that and try modifying the boot.
Here is a sample and example:. Alright, hmmmm The power did not go out, that was just plain weird. Also, twice I've had this problem. The computer wouldn't start up. I believe this was after the storm. I found out later one of the times was cause a video driver?
Even though I hadn't touched my drivers for a while and everything was always fine. Very hard to describe. After I turned it off, after hearing that, and turned it back on. It did it again. So I tried it again, and it didn't do it. I too face a similar problem but peculiar in its very own nature. I was able to repair the ntoskrnl. But now when it goes to the "Windos is starting" black screen with that white progress bar across the bottom, i get the problem,. It said the file was not found.
I looked in my repair folder and saw there were 2 files, for 0 bytes, which i think means it's empty. So i don't have that file. Is there someplace else i can copy that file over?
Also, when i try to do a repair installation, i get that blue screen "to set up windows now, press enter, then i do and agree to the license, then the next screen, it doesn't give me the option to do a repair install. It goes straight ot my partitions and asks where i want to install the new copy of windows.
WHy don't i get the option to repair install? Also, i have 2 paritions on this harddrive. One has windows on it and the other has all my important files. If i install a fresh copy of windows on the partiiton with the old version of windows, will i lose my info on the other partition? No you will not. Windows will only install to the partition you specify and will leave the others intact.
Hi guys, I have exactly the same problem with the ntoskrnl. Alright just built new comp and have gone in to install win xp pro. I get it all installed go to start up and get the ntoskrnl. I boot up windows again and try and do the repair file which has been said before, but on my setup menu it shows my C:partition1 ,.
So then i deleted partition tried reformatting and ntoskernl. I am going to try and do the long reformatting again to see if it works. Didn't the first time, but maybe this time it will. I have no way of getting to the RC Alright i did the long reformatting and it worked, i had it running and all was jolly until after i was updating bios and installing things like anti virus etc.
I go to do the restart and come up with a new problem "C Now it just keeps looping when i try and reboot. I reformatted it twice with quick way and reinstalled windows, then when i try and to boot it up i get the same ntdll.
So for the last time i am going to run long reformat way and try it again. If it screws up I am sending back my three day old maxtor hard drive. Any other suggestions? I don't need to keep any of the info on my C: drive But i'd guess that's where the virus resides.
So maybe it'd be better if i formatted just the C: drive and then reinstalled windows? But if i do that, would that mean any programs ie microsoft money, video games, etc that i installed on the D: drive, wouldn't work anymore?
I'd have to reinstall? More than likely yes. The registry entries made when those programs were installed would be erased once you installed Windows.
But if that is the route you want to take, I would format vice the re-install, a. I'm having the same exact problem as the first poster, my ntoskrnl. But the solutions that were given aren't working as easily as they were for him. When I try and cd to the system32 folder I keep getting the following error, "The path or file specified is not valid.
Recently I bought a HP dv which seemed to be running as it should for about the first six days. However after that when I turned it on it would show the initial HP graphic screen when powered up and then go black and start an audio alarm of a constant drone.
To solve this I pressed the stop button on the media control other buttons seem to have the same effect too and the alarm would soon stop and the computer would return to it's normal start up process. It was around the same time that I noticed a strance thing happening with the number 5 key. The key would act as if constantly being pressed for no reason and cause the number 5 to scrawl across the screen when not pushed.
It would happen on all applications to start up which required text, msn messenger, word docs etc. By pressing the media player stop button, the problem would seem to go away but often soon return. My first thoughts were that it must be a bit of a faulty button but I did a bit of a test on it and it still requires the same amount of finger pressure on the keyboard to activate the button.
So with the strange audio alarm on the start up and the number 5 thing, I then decided to do a start up and let the audio alarm run for a while to figure itself out. After a minute or so it would sometimes say notskrnl exe.
I am very amature when it comes to this sort of thing but I managed to locate thefile in the window32 I think it was so it wasn't missing, but possibly corrupt. I then attempted to replace the file which I think seemed to work but only for one start up.
Do you think it is a faulty PC problem I had only had it for six days however had used internet while running Norton AntiVirus and anti spyware. Well, I first of all apologize for resurrecting an old topic but I am sorely in need of help here. My issue however is when I go in to repair it with the recovery console, I immediately get this error:.
Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program. This is a brand new computer that was built by a friend only a few days ago. It has run fine and restarted tons of times in the past 2 days while I installed new software.
Is the problem simply that my hard drive is nuked? When I press tab to key into the user window during start up it gives me a notice saying the number of disks is not adequate to create a raid however at the bottom it lists:. Does this mean it still registers it and that it isn't dead or am I just getting my hopes up as I fumble around in various options during start up.
I don't know very much about the side of building computers or fixing problems like these but if given any instructions that might help I should be able to follow them. I really hope the hard drive isn't dead after only two days of use. I moved the computer before I got this problem and I hope I didn't mes up the hard drive by setting it down too sharply.
I set it down a little rough but nothing more than what would be expected from normal travel. I even went in and disconnected and reconnected all the cables onnected to the hard drive but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Well well.. The only thing though The only thing it will do is..
So my question is that.. I have the same problem ntoskrnl. Last night I was gaming as always I close out my game and decide to defrag. I open up dfrag on drive C I have 2 drives C has one partition and all my games, drive 2 has 4 partitions 40 gigs big each It could not initialize my defrag So I try recovery but no dice I tried installing win2k on my slave drive's H partition I did JrzyCrim's method I do not HAVE a sp1. I do have an sp4. What I had planned to do if this does not work is to take out slave drive, convert it to master, and install win2k on one of the partitions I dunno if it will allow me to use the last partition in series, since I have info on the first 3.
IF this does indeed work then I plan on moving all my games to that drive. THank God I have 2 computers Anyone else with ideas, can also email me send me PM too. I also sent a PM to JrzyCrim I swapped out the slave and master drives too Now the new issue is it goes to win2k splash screen, then the blue screen where you sign in, then boom There is a folder in system32 called dllcache which contains backups of many critical system files.
The chances that the original file and the copy in dllcache are both corrupted are very slim. Of course, if you have problems with lots of files, you should always run a Virus scan My computer has the same problem as the one described in previous posts. I dropped my laptop and now it won't boot up. It will show me the Thinkpad startup screen, then go blank for about 30 seconds and the hard drive makes a rhythmic loading sound. Then it shows me that message about ntoskrnl.
JrzyCrim, you have posted a suggestion and it has seemed to work for at least one person. However, I am extremely computer-illiterate when it comes to hardware, OS, or registry problems.
I have described my problem casually to an IT person and they said it may be that my hard drive has failed. But before I try to buy a new harddrive, I would like to try your suggestion. The problem is, though, that I have no idea how to access the dllcache in System Could you tell me how to do this considering my computer won't even boot?
I have just received this "error message" upon switching on this morning although after rebooting and entering "F5" I was allowed to boot to windows using the "last known working configuration" option. Anyway, I found this guide for using the recovery console to repair the corrupt file s and was wondering if anyone has tried this method.
I have received the dreaded message that the following file was missing or corrupt: ntoskrnl. The first two times this appeared was after rebooting when I intalled the motherboard drivers. Running the XP CD to repair the installation fixed the problem.
Yesterday I went in to install the IIs web server and on reboot was presented with the message again. Nothing I have done since has enabled me to get Win XP repaired or installed. First step, however, was to rescue my data.
I had to download and install an rpm file to update the Linux kernel so it would read the NTFS partition. So I tried initially all the repair options suggested in this thread. To no avail. I have also deleted all partitions on the drive and let the Win XP CD go through partitioning and long format, and still get the same problem.
Any recommendations? At the moment the best I can come up with is returning this drive for Linux use and finding another drive for Win XP, but its not the optimum option. I have read all the posts about the above topic,but I still can not get my p. This is what happed to me. I was working on the p. I turn on the p. Any help at all would be fantastic.
Well i have problem with the same "ntoskrnl. No idea what to do for it Doesn't seem to be the case, using the same keyboard right now and tried 3 keyboards Well since then normal boots sometimes work and if not I just restart and boot again via F5 and again I get no problems?
I tried to solve the ntoskrnl problem this way. I put my windows cd in my computer and booted it from there. I ran the recovery console and expanded the ntoskrnl.
It all worked nice but when I exited the console the computer restarted as expected but now it keeps on restarting. It goes all the way to the white screen where the image of windows is and the blue bar loads itself.
But when it reaches the end it reboots again and it keeps on doing it. Please help. Try booting to safe mode. Check the system log for any errors that occurred after the boot.
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