ntoskrnl.exe is corrupted. windows wont open

I hate to bump this topic it is so old but I don't have the disk. All I got was the main piece of the computer. No mouse no keyboard no monitor.

Is there another way?

Hmmmm, I've just been trying to help you in your other thread...
Should've been nice if you stayed at one place

Anyway, without the original Windows installation CD, there's not
much you can do, I'm afraid.

When I bought my Asus system, I was only issued with a Recovery CD ROM and a Driver and Utility CD. I do not see any Windows Installation CD. Did I miss out anything that was supposed to come in the original package?

Sorry if the problem is not to be repeated today, but my computer has crashed, without wanting to damage a file under windows in system32, and that is not very smart but he was desperate because it did not work well and prove and damaged at all.
I can do?
tested with the Windows CD to repair errors no risk of losing my data?
There are some other way?

I don't quit understand what you are saying...

You can repair with the CD without loosing your data... that's without formatting... if you format, THAT'S when you will loose the data.

Hi

I'm trying to install a new clean version of Windows XP. This is the message i'm getting straight after the BIos screen.

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.
Please reinstall a copy of the above file.

If i press any key the laptop will reboot.

What can i do?

Is it the HDD faulty?

I've installed once XP on this HDD it was all fine until i decided to install Vista therefore i had to re-format the HDD after that reformating the whole has gone wrong.

Please Please Please Please HELP !!!

Thank you

Insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD. Note: If you have a recovery CD or a restore CD and not a Microsoft Windows XP CD it is likely the below steps will not resolve your issue.

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.

Select the operating system you wish to fix, and then enter the administrator password.

Type expand d:\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32

You will then be prompted if you wish to overwrite the file type Y and press enter to overwrite the file.

Type exit to reboot the computer.

Thanks so much JrzmCrim!

Somehow I inserted a floppy disk this afternoon and also I shut off the power supply by accident when I was doing some cleaning. When I restart my computer it didn't boot and gave some error information saying "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted". I saw some forum mentioned the keyboard and I found my keyboard seemed "dead". But still the problem persisted.

I followed your commands in Recovery Console and solved the ntoskrnl.exe problem, but then another file called "hal.dll" became the problem. I tried in a similar way but finally saw another problem of "\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM". I was about to give up before I followed your helpful link. It works now and I am able to reply your post

The repaired system took some time to update all the drivers, except VGA which I re-installed.

Thanks again JrzmCrim!