NtosKRNL.exe corrupted?

Quick search says this is for windows NT, but my dad's laptop is on XP and is receiving this issue.

Found a link on the web that would help and fix it, but any suggestions here?

http://icrontic.com/articles/repair_windows_xp

Scroll down to the krnl.exe part.

 

Windows XP has Windows NT actually built into it. There is a way to acces it, but I cannot remember how. I do know for a fact that it's there though.

 

Since XP is a spinoff of 2000, which spun off NT, it's not surprising. Do a repair.

 

not sure if I have my installation cd's anymore, but I will see if I can find em

 

Any chance of fixing this?

 

I'd say about 99.9% if you have the CD.

 

Good to know. That link I posted should help me right?

 

If you're having that problem, then I don't know why it wouldn't.

 

Blah, I can't find any recovery cd's at home... Any other suggestions?

 

Download and burn it

 

It's asking for an admin password, but they dont have one? At least I dont think they do.

 

If you're referring to the recovery console, it's probably blank.

 

yeah in the recovery console, I told it to boot from cd, then it did it'sthing. Asked me for an admin password, left it blank and hit enter, then this popped up

C:\Windows or something like that, and just sat there...

 

type help for the list of commands or whatever commands the webpage is telling you.

 

Ok, so after I let it boot up with the system CD, 2 things happen. I can either:

A) Let it run, and then push R for repair. That's when it takes me to the admin password thing. Where if I hit enter, it thinks for a moment, and then makes a new line with C:\Windows

or

B)I can choose the Automated Repair option at the beginning and it asks me for a automated repair cd.

So yeah...