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re: Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed'
Friday, March 1, 2002 at 12:58 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Thomas Frey
(2 messages posted)
I found the fix to this problem.
1. It is the corruption of the boot.ini file.
2. To fix it, I did a parallel install of XP to create a new boot.ini file and get
access to the PC.
3. I have seen references to booting off of the XP CD-ROM and this works by going
to setup and then selecting "Repair". This only works however when the setup program
actually sees the installation to repair. In my case it did not, so I did the paralleled
install.
4. Using the paralleled install, I modified the boot.ini file so that it would boot
off of my old installation and not the new one. This is done by change the reference
for the [boot loader] section to refer to the original install folder. In my case,
the big issue was that the boot.ini was corrupted by a program called BOOTXP and
it was not referring to the correct partition.
5. The only down side is that I had to reactivate XP.
After all of this, I am back in business and no thanks to MS Support. They were
not sure what to do.
If you want info. on how to delete the paralleled install, let me know.
Hope this helps.
On Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 10:33 pm, Rick wrote:
>Any idea why after upgrading win 98 to win XP, the PC will not boot and the message
>"file hal.dll is missing or corrupted" appears? Could the file be corrupted on
XP
>CD? Could BIOS version affect this? Tried it twice. MS support is of no help.
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