Originally Posted by directfiesta

Want to save your data ?

Get an IDE ( or SATA of the drive is ) external USB box ( about 10$ ), pull out your drive from laptop , insert drive in box, connect to USB , copy to your local drives.

Once copied, you can always try to copy that " ntoskrnl.exe " to the proper location on the drive and see if it boots up in the laptop.

If not, reformat ( while in the USB box ) and reload windows.