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Windows 2000 could not start

I have a multi-boot PC with Windows 2000 Pro and Server running for the last couple of days. This morning, after doing some in Windows 2000 server, i tried to boot up Windows 2000 Pro only to get the message...
windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupted <windows 2000 root>system32\ntoskrnl.exe

what can i do to resolve this? somebody please help me out!!

Jaddy
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first try booting with a boot floppy
format a floppy with a 2k, nt or 2k3 machine
copy the ntldr, ntdetect and a boot.ini file on to the floppy
make sure the boot.ini points to the corrct path

try booting off of this, if this doesn't work, it may be a harddrive problem or true file corruption
have a 2k disk handy to run recovery console to determine what the problem is
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