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While at work a colleagues old compaq laptop decided to barf up the above stop error code one morning, good ol’ XP. He had shut it down properly and everything but whenever he attempted to start it again the stop error code would pop up and then the computer would do the automatic reboot. To fix this problem I simply booted up from the Windows install disc, entered the Recovery Console ( by pressing “r” when the install screen came up) and then proceeded to run

chkdsk /r 

And that alone fixed the problem file. If I had to guess what had happened from what I’ve read elsewhere it’s possible that the ntoskrnl.exe file became corrupted somewhere along the way and chkdsk was able to repair it.