ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt in W2K

I´ve been away for 2 months. When I got back, I switched on my computer. Althoug it did boot up, it was taking so long to download stuff I decided to reboot. I then got the following message:

Disk I/O error: Status = 00008007

Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

<windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

I have a second copy of W2K on a different physical drive. I booted this, and under it I have access to all drives except the one my first W2K is installed on.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks.

Robert

 

I've used such kind of backupsystem mysef often but sometimes it DOES fail when it's located on the same PHYSICAL drive.

If you have a backup (I suppose you have as that was first thing i did after creation of a 2nd bootpartition), you can remove the partition and recreate it again and copy the bootsystem to it.

Another possibility would be to use XXCLONE to create an image of your current bootpartition onto that partition you can't access.
Of course 'latest changes' will be lost then.

Maybe you can also access the partition using some kind of unix tool and just copy ntoskrnl.exe onto it
Or try booting from cd and repair that windowsinstallation

hope it helps