Hi All, I'm desperate for help. Today, I've experienced a power failure in my office. As a result, my POWERCHUTE UPS shutdown the server for me. When the electricity resume, the NT server boot up with the error message as below. The kernel file is missing from the disk. Insert the system diskette and restart the computer The message appeared in the black screen background just like DOS prompt background instead of blue screen. SO I insert the Windows NT disk1, disk2 and disk3 to make a repair but when it reaches disk3 trying to repair a mass storage device, it said cannot detect there is a disk existed and as a result it cannot boot up. I tried and tried and till I give up. My NT server is a HP LC3 with a RAID 5 hard disk. Initially, I thought with a RAID 5 system, it will help to prevent disk getting corrputed and damaged bt why would this occurred. I've inserted the Emergency disk but to no anvail. It said the Emergency disk could not get started. Pls help and advise me how to make my NT server boot up? Desperate JOHN NEWMAN

you neet to boot from an NT CD, then it will ask if you want to repair, then put in the repair disk RAID would kick in if the drive physically failed, I'm not sure how it works when you have file corruption like this...

A few eeks ago I had a similar problem. Upon rebooting the server it got past ntdetect and to the load menu but then failed saying the NTOSKRNL.exe file was missing or corrupt. When I booted into DOS the file was there in D:\wtsrv\system32. The problem was that recently I had added another hard-drive and partioned it with Disk Administrator which, unbeknown to me, changed the internal partion numbers. So several weeks later when I needed to reboot the server, boot.ini in the root of the C:\ drive was pointing to the wrong partion. A simple edit in DOS to correct it and the system booted ok. An example entry:- [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WTSRV="xxx" The value in brackets after partition says which partistion to load from. This may have changed if you have made changes to the disk config within Disk Administrator.

I am also experiencing the same problem like what John has told.Can u elp me.John If u rectified ur problem then Kindly let me know the procedure to rectify it.. Waiting for ur reply John..

I'm also having this problem with this, everytime I try and do a repair it asks for the emergency repair disk - I'm not sure how to create an Emergency Repair Disk because I can't access Windows NT now. Is their a way to get out of having to do a re-install ?

Sir, Kindly help me regarding this message appearing in my system. It is not booting through CD. If I insert through Windows setup disk it will. But so many files are missing. How do I correctb thses without formating the drive. Thanking you BRSMURTHY

I am having the exact same problem with an NT 4.0 SBS install. I installed a modem driver and lan card driver then rebooted and get the message. I haven't even gotten to the point of making an ERD yet Help Michael