ntoskrnl Corrupt

[Jeff]

I have a Toshiba laptop with XP Home that will not boot.
It gives the error that ntoskrnl is corrupt and needs to
be replaced. I have read that I just need to do a Repair
Install of XP, but when I try that it asked for the
Administrator password, which I don't know.

Is there a way around this password problem?

Can I do a normal re-install of Windows over the top of
what is there and still be able to access the data that
is on this machine?

I don't mind fdisk'ing and starting over, or using the
restore disk that came with the laptop - BUT - I really
need to get some of the documents off of the machine
before I wipe it clean.

Please help...
Jeff

 

[Guest]

Try this link line #25 http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[purplehaz]

Installing windows over itself is a repair install. When you tried you did
it wrong. You did not read the directions carefully. What you tried to do
was enter the recovey console. This is different from a repair install.
Repair install:

Boot from the XP cd, and when prompted hit enter to begin setup. Press F8 to
accept the license agreement. It will then search and find your existing XP
install. Select it, and choose R for repair. Back up any important data
files in case something goes wrong.

 

[Jeff]

You are correct. This appears to have worked, but I had
to re-register Windows, which isn't a big deal except I
didn't think I would have to do that with a "repair"
install.

it also created a new user, so now it shows 2. I guess it
is OK to remove one of them (the new one) so there isn't
a choice at system boot up...?...

This computer is my father's, and I need to keep it as
simple to boot and use as I can, so I don't want 2 users
showing up at boot up.

 

[purplehaz]

Glad it worked for you. Not sure why you had to reactivate, it shouldn't
have made you, but the activation thing isn't an exact science, so how
knows, as long as your fixed up.
You can delete the extra user and then to make sure that it does auto-logon
into the correct user:
Start, run, type in: control userpasswords2, hit enter.

Uncheck: users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.

Xp will then ask you to enter the user and password you want to auto-logon
to.