Startup error

[brad t]

I'm trying to start up my laptop and receive the following
error:

Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000

Windows 2000 counld not start because the following file
is missing or corrupt: <windows 2000 root>\system32
\ntoskrnl.exe.
Please reinstall a copy of the above file.
..

 

[Evi]

Is the file actually missing?
Can you get into the command prompt by pressing F8 just before Windows
starts. (you have to be pretty nifty on a fast machine)?

In Dos, you can look for the file.

Have you done anything to your laptop eg installed a bootmanager or moved a
partition?

A search on Google for
File Corrupt ntoskrnl.exe
showed that many people have had the same problem, perhaps you will
recognise a similarity with some of them.

Evi