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Help, need a few files

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So I awoke to find my XP Home laptop complaining that it couldn't start because ntoskrnl.exe was corrupt, yay. I replaced that file via the recovery console, and tried again...this time, ntfs.sys is corrupt, so I replace that. I restart again, it gets to the loading screen, but I get a BSOD: session5_initialization_failed Stop 0x71.

I now realize that this XP Home laptop had SP2 installed, and the XP cd from which I grabbed the replacement ntfs.sys and ntoskrnl.exe was a plain XP Home CD, no service packs integrated. (d'oh!).

Would it be possible for someone with a XP Home SP2 machine to send me the ntoskrnl.exe and ntfs.sys files, or are these files computer-specific? Is there a place online where I can download the appropriate versions of these files?

Lastly, once I get ahold of these two files with the appropriate versions, is there a way through the recovery console that I can copy them to my C:\ drive, off a USB drive?

Thanks in advance.
 
I believe ntoskrnl is the same for both versions. Not sure about ntfs.sys

Are you able to boot off of the disk?
 
If you have a working PC, assuming so, since you're posting.....use AutoStreamer and make your disc an SP2 disc. That should have been done long ago with all XP discs, but might as well do it now since you could use it.
 
Sorry, I'm not sure what "disk" you mean.

As of right now, I can boot from a XP Home CD, load up the recovery console, and do whatever I want.

I can start to boot from the hard drive, but once it gets to the Windows XP Home Edition loading screen, I get a BSOD. (The loading screen it takes me to is the pre-SP2 loading screen that says "Windows XP Home Edition" instead of just "Windows XP", that makes me think it is a version mismatch with one or both of these files that I replaced).
 
DeaconFrost said:
If you have a working PC, assuming so, since you're posting.....use AutoStreamer and make your disc an SP2 disc. That should have been done long ago with all XP discs, but might as well do it now since you could use it.
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Well, here's the next issue then. It's a HP laptop, and it didn't come with a XP Home disc, just the recovery CDs. I have been booting to the recovery console from another XP Home disc I have.
 
Boot to the recovery console from your cd. When you get to the prompt run CHKDSK /R command. It'll take a while to run. If that doesn't fix it you'll have to do a recovery re-install.
 
Mister Natural said:
Boot to the recovery console from your cd. When you get to the prompt run CHKDSK /R command. It'll take a while to run. If that doesn't fix it you'll have to do a recovery re-install.
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Sorry, should have mentioned that, CHKDSK /R ran and reported that it found and corrected some errors, but it still BSOD's upon reboot.

Its been a while since I've done a repair install of Windows, does it keep your files intact? I have two user accounts on this machine that have files that have been changed since my last weekly backup, and I'd like to keep them intact.
 
If you boot from the CD and run the full repair install, your files will be left intact. You will have to reload all Windows Updates again though.
 
DeaconFrost said:
If you boot from the CD and run the full repair install, your files will be left intact. You will have to reload all Windows Updates again though.
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Alright, this brings up another question then. :) Since I don't have a XP install disc that came with this laptop, just the HP recovery CDs, can I use this other XP Home CD I have, and use the CD key on the laptop to reinstall Windows? I forget if the XP Home CD I have is Retail or OEM, most likely OEM, though.
 
You'll need to find out that last part to be sure. It will work if your disc is an OEM license type.
 
Thanks for the link. Out of curiosity, are you prompted during a repair install to re-enter your CD key?
 
Well, what I ended up doing was pulling a ntfs.sys and ntoskrnl.exe from my xp pro sp2 machine, copying them on to the laptop through the recovery console, and was then able to boot into safe mode. From there, I copied all the relevant files, and wiped the laptop using the HP recovery discs. Thanks everyone for your help!
 
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