\system32\ntoskrnl.exe Missing or Corrupt

[TBird55]

Please help....

I have an HP desktop that had Windows ME which was undersigned by PeoplePC.  Recently I installed Windows XP Home Edition.  I took advantage of the updates offered by msn and after the updates installed, the system would not reboot.  I received an error message that: \system 32\ntoskrnl.exe was missing or corrupt.  Things were running fine until I installed the updates... I believe it was Windows Service Pack 2.

[Tech_Net]

HI,

Edit your Boot.ini file and change the partition information by performing the following steps:

1. Remove the Read Only and System File attributes from the Boot.ini file by typing the following command at an MS-DOS or OS/2 command line:
   Attrib -S -R C:\Boot.ini
2. Edit the Boot.ini file and change the partition number for Windows. In most cases, you need to increase the partition number by one. A typical Windows line in the Boot.ini file looks similar to the following, where x is the partition number and <ntdir> is the name of the folder into which Windows is installed:
   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(x)\<ntdir>="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"

Good Luck

[SyncMaster]

Better perform a system restore if you had made a restore point prior doing the updates

[rahat412]

Can you explain in a little more details..... i think its happen for corrupted driver.....