Re: XP boot floppy

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From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:53:11 -0500

Harry Ohrn wrote:
> fixmbr is an option that is run from the Recovery Console. Use either the 6
> floppy set or your XP CD.
> There is a single floppy DOS disk that can be used to install XP but you can
> not run fixmbr from it. That disk is found at Plato's site here
> www.bootdisk.com
>
Harry, when I boot from XP CD and it gets to choice of RC or
whatever, I select RC and it says it can't find c:\system32\hal.dll
but a search of that drive when it is visible as Slave,
shows hal.dll in a dozen places, including in system32.
It's a Catch-22....I need to run RC to fixmbr, but it won't
run RC because it can't find that file. Did I search for it
in the wrong place? Should I start a new thread, since we're
out of the XP boot floppy area already.

                    William B. Lurie

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