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I had a Windows XP Professional installation running fine until suddenly it stopped working and showed following error while booting:
NTOSKRNL.EXE is missing or corrupt.
I tried to boot through different bootable CDs (Windows XP Professional) but they all froze soon after the "press any key to boot from CD......" message. Windows 7 installed successfully, but I need to install Windows XP Professional as my system configuration isn't suitable for Windows 7.
Please suggest a solution to get Windows XP installed and running again.
Mr-Right
Posted 2011-05-16T19:11:31.220
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1Could be a problem with your Windows XP Pro install disk? Have you attempted to use a different installation disk? – paradd0x – 2011-05-16T19:16:38.513
Do you have multiple partitions? – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T19:19:19.027
@Thiago M.: Yes i have tried different installation disks too. – Mr-Right – 2011-05-16T19:21:18.720
@Kyle: Yes i have multiple partitions. – Mr-Right – 2011-05-16T19:21:40.967
1Hmm it's been a while since I have encountered this error... I remember having to delete the partition and recreate it. – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T19:25:32.483
OKay so a quick search refreshed my memory, if the disk is fine and windows 7 installs fine it may be a problem with your partition table. Try deleting the partition and remaking it I don't remember having to delete other partitions but if it continues to fail it might be worth a shot. – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T19:26:56.283
1In addition to what Kyle said; you can use the Windows 7 install disk to delete the partitions and recreate them and then try booting from the XP install disk. – paradd0x – 2011-05-16T19:27:31.017
That particular file was is from the NT days I don't think windows 7 includes it any more, it holds alot of important information that the kernel needs to operate. It also one of the first files loaded during boot and installations. – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T19:28:35.300
@Thiago M: I can't afford deleting and recreating partitions because my data is too important to me. – Mr-Right – 2011-05-17T08:03:38.517
Have you installed windows 7 first and now trying to make a dual boot? IF not then is first setup of windows Xp runs I mean to say that the console part of windows or not? – avirk – 2011-08-12T14:43:44.883