HD change: problem with boot.ini

Hi,

I want to upgrade the HD of my DELL Laptop from 60 GB to 100GB, without of
course having to install all again.

Thus, I made Acronis (version 10) images from all 3 partitions on a USB hard
disk, switched to the new HD, partition it, and restore the images on the
corresponding new partitions.

Booting this new system brings the error message: "hal.dll not found or
corrupted"

Examining boot.ini, I have the following:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

I don't quite understand why (on my running system) WINDOWS on partition(2)
is (pagefile.sys is on drive D:, but bringing it back on C: does not change
anything in boot.ini), and I can imagine that it is doing the problem on the
new system.

So I would like to be able to edit boot.ini to replace partition(2) by
partition(1), but it is not quite easy... The only way I know is booting
with XP CD and access the repair console. Unfornutately, there is no editor
available.

Does anyone know a way to do this? Or is ma assumption the right one?

Hubert Retif.


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