Ntoskrnl.exe corrupt

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Ok, I have seen this problem before, and fixed it, but never before
like this. My installation of vista will only boot if I have the media
in the dvd drive. If I remove it, it tells me that ntoskrnl.exe is
missing or corrupt... bla bla bla... now, I am not booting form the
dvd drive, I just have to have the vista dvd in the drive, it waits
for me to press a key, times out, then boots as normal.

any idea how to fix this, right off hand?
 
talkinggoat said:
Ok, I have seen this problem before, and fixed it, but never before
like this. My installation of vista will only boot if I have the media
in the dvd drive. If I remove it, it tells me that ntoskrnl.exe is
missing or corrupt... bla bla bla... now, I am not booting form the
dvd drive, I just have to have the vista dvd in the drive, it waits
for me to press a key, times out, then boots as normal.

any idea how to fix this, right off hand?
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On my Vista Home P the file lives here:
C:\Windows\System32
 
On my Vista Home P the file lives here:
C:\Windows\System32
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Thanks, but that's not the problem. It's caused by an error in the
installation code of Vista.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...nk=gst&q=ntoskrnl.exe&rnum=6#46e331637fd29f69

I have a SATA drive as the primary for vista, an IDE drive as a master
on the primary IDE chain, and a DVD RW as its slave. I disabled the
IDE master HDD in the BIOS, booted into the vista setup, and chose
repair. At that time, it said that it could not find where the boot
information was stored, or something like that... it asked if I wanted
to repair it. Obviously, I told it yes and rebooted. Again, I booted
back into the DVD and chose repair. This time, it showed that the boot
data was on the correct drive. I chose the first option on the repair
menu... I think it's boot repair (or someting like that) it went
through and did a couple of things. I clicked finish and the computer
rebooted. I left the DVD in the drive, allowed vista to boot off the
HDD, then promptly rebooted. At this bootup, I took the DVD out and
the HDD install took over just fine. It booted up. I then rebooted
again, and enabled the IDE drive that I had turned off.

This is really a rookie mistake for a multi billion dollar company.
I'm very surprised and dissapointed, but, at the same time, I'm not. I
believe that they are making their software for downtime. After all,
they are helping the economy by employing how many computer tech's?
Although, half don't know what BIOS even stands for...
 
Spirit said:
The causes of the problem are the same for both XP and Vista.
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While the causes may be the same, the solution to fix it is not. There is no
way
to use the Recovery Console (or Command Prompt in Vista) to copy ntoskrnl.exe
from the installation DVD to c:\windows\system32 on the corrupted Vista
installation. At least in XP it was possible to do this. Vista drops the
ball.
Restore Points, Recovery etc. will do nothing to fix this. Been there.
It would appear that the ONLY option left is to reinstall Vista and loose
all your
programs and settings. A sorry way to fix this problem.
james
 
"Spirit" wrote:
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While the causes may be the same, the solution to fix it is not. There is no
way to use the Recovery Console (or Command Prompt in Vista) to copy
ntoskrnl.exe from the installation DVD to c:\windows\system32 on the
corrupted Vista installation. At least in XP it was possible to do this. Vista
drops the ball.
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It would appear that the ONLY option left is to reinstall Vista and loose
all your programs and settings. A sorry way to fix this problem.
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I would try Bart CDR boot in a situation like this.

I agree, it's disgusting if a single bent file can't be fixed without
destroying the installation, but NT's allways been weak in this area,
especially when you (have to) use NTFS.


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Tech Support: The guys who follow the
'Parade of New Products' with a shovel.
 
I have had this exact same error 3 times in a row now.
First time I was able to fix it using command prompt runchkdsk.
Second time I couldnt fix it and reformatted my hard drive to reinstall
vista.
And now 3 days later it has done it again. My friend suspects my
motherboard drivers not being up to date being the problem.
Any ideas?
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Bad hard drive
 
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