Find another Computer running W2000, boot up to Windows, go to the drive/partition with W2k installed, open the drive/WINNt/System32/ and scroll down to the ntoskrnl file. Send it to a Floppy Diskette(only a copy). Take the disk to your laptop, boot up in safe mode, and open the floppy drive with the Diskette. Drag the file off the diskette with the left mouse key and in Windows Explorer, drop it on the WINNT/System32 folder. It may give you a message about the file already being present and it will be overwritten if you continue. Do so as that is what you need. I would suggest you label and retain the diskette for future use as that System file seems to get corrupted or lost frequently.
Users on the Software / Windows 2000 board may offer more expertise. As leduke noted, multiple posts on different boards is not conducive to efficiently receiving help.
The link below offers a guide to repair install Windows 2000 Pro, with or without an ERD disk.
Thanx GM for the help. Sorry about the 2X postings, but I thought this post would be better, but found it after I made the 1st one. First time at this forum, but so far very helpful, thanx again!!!
If you have a floppy drive , put it on a diskette and restore it from there. Floppy drives work in safe mode, but not USB or CD drives. Just pick it up with the mouse or Touchpad Left key and drag it in Windows Explorer to the System 32 Folder and drop it on the folder.
I have the same problem - I managed to get the file onto my mega stick but one huge problem to over come - I cannot start in Safe Mode !? it just goes back to the same problem " Windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" Please re-install a copy of the above file.
Can you help me any further? Seems a major is brewing here.
Thanks for your quick response. I cannot get the file onto floppy (too large) so I put it on USB (although I don't get the chance to use it). But the thing is I cannot get into "Safe Mode" at all...when I press F8 and select safe mode it goes straight to the error message and I do not see anything at all except the error message. I don't have an option of doing anything. I am lucky that I have an old computer to use as I cannot get into the main one at all. Hope you can help. Thanks
I should have checked the size, but had no idea that any boot files would be that large.
I would try to rerun your W-2k CD and do not use the repair console; instead, tell it to install W-2k and it will prompt you that an installation is already on the partition and ask if you want to overwrite it. Let it do that. If you can not rerun the CD and get that far, go to another computer and put the W2K CD in the drive. There is a file on all W2k CDS available by browsing called BootDisk, and two files inside. Use the one that says Makeboot 32 to make 4 diskettes. Use those on your laptop to boot the computer, and after using the diskettes, you will be prompted to switch to the W2K CD. Do that and again go to the install prompts and overwrite and let it overwrite the OS installation. That should work as it did for me and for the same reason.
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Find another Computer running W2000, boot up to Windows, go to the drive/partition with W2k installed, open the drive/WINNt/System32/ and scroll down to the ntoskrnl file. Send it to a Floppy Diskette(only a copy). Take the disk to your laptop, boot up in safe mode, and open the floppy drive with the Diskette. Drag the file off the diskette with the left mouse key and in Windows Explorer, drop it on the WINNT/System32 folder. It may give you a message about the file already being present and it will be overwritten if you continue. Do so as that is what you need. I would suggest you label and retain the diskette for future use as that System file seems to get corrupted or lost frequently.
BTW, do NOT make multiple posts in other boards.
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Thanks for your quick response. I cannot get the file onto floppy (too large) so I put it on USB (although I don't get the chance to use it). But the thing is I cannot get into "Safe Mode" at all...when I press F8 and select safe mode it goes straight to the error message and I do not see anything at all except the error message. I don't have an option of doing anything. I am lucky that I have an old computer to use as I cannot get into the main one at all. Hope you can help. Thanks
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