WinXP Missing File

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Drew

My sister in-law is running WinXP Home Edition and just
picked up a virus. Now all she gets on boot is a black
screen that says Windows cannot start because it is
missing the widowsrootsystem32ntoskrnl.exe file. She
can't find any kind of a "recovery disk" with her system.
Is it possible to get just this one file or does she need
to purchase WinXP again? Thanks
 
Drew said:
My sister in-law is running WinXP Home Edition and just
picked up a virus. Now all she gets on boot is a black
screen that says Windows cannot start because it is
missing the widowsrootsystem32ntoskrnl.exe file. She
can't find any kind of a "recovery disk" with her system.
Is it possible to get just this one file or does she need
to purchase WinXP again? Thanks
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You should boot with the Windows XP CD and use the Recovery Console to
restore the ntoskrnl.exe file.

It is in the CD compressed as ntoskrnl.ex_. You must use the "expand"
tool (it comes with WinXP) to uncompress it.

Should your XP CD ROM do not have the Recovery Console, you can use
Knoppix 3.4 (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) to restore the file. If
the partiton is NTFS-formatted, mount the NTFS partition using the
"Captive" tool (otherwise NTFS partitions will be mounted read-only).
 
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