Missing NTOSKRNL.EXE on WIndows 2000 Server HELP!!

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"SA" <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I have a Poweredge 6450 with a RAID controller hosting my one logical
> container. On Firday evening I applied a patch and logged out. When I
> went to log back in I got the blue screen. After that upon reboot I could
> not find the boot device. I called Dell and it looks like the RAID card
was
> flaky. Anyway I did a restore but now I get the missing NTOSKRNL.EXE
> message. The RAID container is divided into 2 logical drives C: and D:.
My
> windows installtion is on the D: volume and content on the C:.
>
> I tried the repair with my ERD already but that did not work. I then went
> in using recovery console. I can see ALL my data and the ntoskrnl.exe. I
> broguth in a new boot.ini file because the partition in the old one is
> listed as 3. I changed it to 2. That did not work either.
>
> Right now I am running a chkdsk /r on both the volumes hoping that might
fix
> it. I then intend to run fixboot and after that fixmbr in the hope that
it
> might fix it. I was then going to use the cd again and run setup and
choose
> the option that preserves everything but checks the system files.
>
> So my question is:
> 1) Am I on the right track or did I miss something?
> 2) What exactly does fixboot and fixmbr and in this case would it be more
> trouble than its worth?
>
> Thanks
> -SA.
>
>