Windows 2000 Pro running on an IBM ThinkPad A21p. My customer just ran into the NTOSKRNL.EXE error. I tried last good configuration, safe mode, and safe mode with command prompt with the same results. Using a product recovery CD I was able to get into DOS. First I looked at boot.ini and that looks OK. Then I went to C:\winnt\system32 and looked at ntoskrnl.exe. That had a date of 3-5-7 and a size of 1,690,880 bytes. I renamed this to ntoskrnl.old and got the ntoskrnl from the i380 directory and put it into system32. Still got the same error. Could I get a XP system disk, go into the repair console and run a chkdsk /r ? Or what else should I do?
This is a critical problem for the customer since its the last day to send in his income taxes and all the programs he needs are on this laptop.
Thanks,
Al
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