XP Boot Problems

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From: David Lyons (dave.lyons_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:02:43 GMT

I am having terrible problems with booting up XP and was wondering if
someone could help.

I foolishly amended the Windows boot.ini file with the intention of removing
a redundant boot reference and now the pc will not let get back into windows
xp - the error message i receive is :-

 "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll"

To get into the pc to repair/fix the file is impossible - it simply won't
let me in - even in safe mode - when i attempt to run the boot up disks for
XP i receive the following message just as the last disk finishes :-

"a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer

page_fault_in_nonpaged_area"

Can anyoen advise id there any way at all I can get into XP from here? Any
help would be wonderful.

I am not bothered about losing data - I just want to get into the computer
even if it means losing files that are on the hard drive.

Thanks in advance.

David Lyons.

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