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    Please help me...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by eL_eRiC, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. eL_eRiC

    eL_eRiC Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay, I was playing a game on my XPS M1530 (I think specs in sig), its Santa Rosa (not sure if they upgraded to Montenova yet) and it froze. I tried turning it on, thinking it was no biggy, when it said it had faiilure to shut down correctly blah blah blah... So I pressed continue anyway and it said to insert the Windows installation disk and gave an error that said

    "File: \Windows\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe

    Status: 0xc00000e9

    Info: Windows failed to load because the kernel is missing, or corrupt"

    I tried restarting a few times with no success, the error kept popping up. So is my only hope of fixing this re-installing the OS again? I've had to do this numerous times and have grown to hate it. Ugh this sucks.
     
    eL_eRiC, Sep 22, 2008
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  2. dell.scares.me

    dell.scares.me Notebook Consultant

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    No, you can run a CHKDSK that will hopefully fix that file....


    I forget how to do it though, someone with more knowledge will have a better answer... Just relax though, it can be fixed! :cool:
     
    dell.scares.me, Sep 22, 2008
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  3. livesoft

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    If CHKDSK finds any corrupted data and is not able to fix it, it will simply flush the data. I lost most of my data after I ran CHKDSK because of corrupted sectors.
     
    livesoft, Sep 22, 2008
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