Error when scandisk set to run on boot

[Ed]

On my XP professional machine, I selected to run the
scandisk on boot option. When I rebooted, I got the
following message and a frozen machine: "Windows Could Not
Start because the following file is missing or corrupt
<windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file"
I had to do a hard power-off to do anything. On reboot,
scandisk (chkdsk) ran ok, and all seemed normal! What
should I do about the supposed missing file?

 

[NobodyMan]

On my XP professional machine, I selected to run the
scandisk on boot option. When I rebooted, I got the
following message and a frozen machine: "Windows Could Not
Start because the following file is missing or corrupt
<windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file"
I had to do a hard power-off to do anything. On reboot,
scandisk (chkdsk) ran ok, and all seemed normal! What
should I do about the supposed missing file?

The post isn't valid; you can't be running scandisk on boot because:

1. Scandisk only ran within windows, while it was running, and
2. WinXP doesn't have scandisk and never did,

Now if you are talking about chkdsk.....

 

[Guest]

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The post isn't valid; you can't be running scandisk on boot because:

1. Scandisk only ran within windows, while it was running, and
2. WinXP doesn't have scandisk and never did,

Now if you are talking about chkdsk.....

. I wrote "On reboot,
Pardon me, I did refer to it as Scan disk out of habit. I

realize that it actually runs the DOS version- checkdsk,
so I noted that above! Sorry for the confusion!