Win2000 unresponsive

[liamkincaid25]

My pc stopped responding yesterday. I am using win2000 and when try to boot get this message "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows2000root>\systmem32\ntoskrnl.exe Please reinstall a copy of the above file"
When I try to bot on the last known goog congiguration the system freezes. If I try to use the repair option using the cd I get this other message
"File\i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error is code 4 Set up can not continue"
at this point the pc freezes.
Any help will be appreciated .Thank You

[Paul Komski]

Look at http://techadvice.com/win2000/i/install-win2k-pro.htm but when you get to 7. choose the repair existing option. It's basically the same process as a WinXP Repair (http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm).

If this is what you were doing when it stalled then I would think the quality of the installation CD is in quesion or your CD-drive needs cleaning etc.

[Sylvander]

"Windows NT Could Not Start...Ntoskrnl.exe" error message (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/124550/en-us)

An Emergency Boot CD [EBCD] (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41485) would be useful in this situation. Especially since you are running Win2000.
Which file system in use? FAT32 or NTFS?
e.g. The EBCD includes a "Create NT/2000/XP [Universal] Boot Floppy" [re method one in the MS webpage].
Good idea to always have these handy.
This substitutes for your "System Partition" and has generic boot files that load Windows from your "Boot Partition" on the internal HDD [your HDD system & boot partitions are probably one and the same].
During startup you are presented with a menu of choices of 4 physical HDD's, each with 4 partitions to boot.
You choose to boot "[Physical] Drive one, Partition one", or whichever is appropriate because it holds the Windows files.
If that fails, the problem lies outwith the boot files and you begin investigating other causes.
If it is successful, once into Windows you can replace the boot file copies on the HDD with the copies on the boot floppy. Probably best to not use the "universal" boot.ini, but instead edit to create a suitable file.

Oops, beat me to it there Paul. :)