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re: Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed'
Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 12:50 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tim
(1 messages posted)
hello,art
well i used style xp and i changed the way my computer booted by changing the screen
and now my computer wont start becuase it cant find the boot file..the correct one......so
i am wondering how i can install the parelell xp windows....i already have xp pro
on it and i need to get in . What it does is after it starts and you have the option
to say del or whatever to get in the bios....it passes that then where its "suppose"
to show you that windows xp with the thing going from right to left while loading
it doesnt show anymore...jsut a black screen. Please let me know Thanks!
On Friday, March 1, 2002 at 12:58 pm, Thomas Frey wrote:
>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.
>
>
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