Every once in while when you reboot a workstation or server you'll get the famous NTOSKRNL.EXE is Missing or Corrupt error Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
C:\Windows\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe
It's fairly straight forward to resolve this problem. Start by booting your machine from the install media (CD/DVD or USB Drive) when prompted follow these steps :
- Boot to the recovery console (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326215)
- Select your Windows installation that you want to recover
- When prompted provide the local administrator password
- Once you are into the recovery console you will probably be sitting at a C:\WINDOWS prompt
- Change the directory to the i386 folder on your CD / DVD drive (If you only have one partition it will most likely be D:\)
- Copy the following files to the C:\ drive
copy ntldr C:
copy ntdetect.com C:
- Change your source directory back to C:\Windows
- Next you will need to fix your boot record
fixboot C:
- Most likely you will also have to fix the boot .ini using the bootcfg command
bootcfg /rebuild
- Add the required Windows installation to your boot list
- Add the Load Identifier (Custom description)
- Add the OS Load Options (/fastdetect)
- Type exit to reboot the machine
Your machine should now be recovered from the NTOSKRNL.exe is Missing or Corrupt" error.
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