NTOSKRNL.EXE missing or corrupt Okay, I know this has been posted before but my situation is a little different. Once I recieved this error I decided I would just repair/reinstall windows so I popped the XP cd into the drive and told the BIOS to load from the CDROM (which it recognized) but it said it couldn't find a boot somethin or other and it proceeded to load from the HD and ultimately failed. This time though rather than giving me the error message it just hung when trying to load ntoskrnl. Well, after that I threw in an old HD with Win98 and booted up the PC. I got a lot of driver errors since this HD has never been on this computer and for some reason it didn't recognize the CDROM so I couldn't load the drivers for much of anything. I pulled some from the XP System folder but a lot weren't there. Anyways.....I noticed that ntoskrnl was were it should be and nothing seemed wrong with it. In case it was corrupt though, I replaced it with one that was in my Windows directory (not sure why it was there). I unplugged the old HD put the new one in the Primary spot, booted, and once again it just hung on ntoskrnl (I know it hangs there because I do a safe mode boot with command line) As far as I can tell the boot.ini file is fine too. All are 0's except for the partition which is 1 (Primary drive with no partitions) Sorry for the lengthiness of this letter but I am sooo lost and I don't know what else to do. Oh, one more thing, the 'A' drive does the same thing as my CDROM, when I put a boot disk in it says it can't find a boot somethin and it proceeds to load from the HD. If anyone has a recomendation other than to throw my HD away, I would appreciate it. My setup: Gigabyte 8-ITX mobo P4 2.0 512k CPU 256mb RDRAM 40Gig IBM Deskstar HD (XP Installed) 5Gig Old HD (Win98 Installed) 120Gig WD HD (Just files...Unistalled it while trying to solve this problem) Acer CD-RW Philips DVDROM (Uninstalled during trouble shooting) Thanks in advance

Find the file on the set-up cd. save to my docs. boot to safe mode. move to windows folder. reboot again. or go to style xp and get a new boot screen program like cia or fbi,etc and do the same as i mentioned above.. = carmine =