Re: Recovery Console crashes

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And what was the error message in the "blue failure screen"? My guess is that is was a 0x7b error...

Why do you need to run the fixboot command if the computer boots to XP without problems?

John

Tony Batchelor wrote:

XP Pro sp3.

I installed RC as per instructions and on boot the option appeared.
When I selected it, the RC gave messages that it was starting and then when the screen blanked, instead of the RC command screen, I got the blue failure screen.

I uninstalled RC, removed the cmdcons folder and file and reinstalled.

Same result.

So then I used msconfig and went to BOOT.INI. That gave me a message that the path was no good, so removed the entry for me.

Rebooting and reinstalling I went to RC and then got a message that hal.dll could not be found. After booting into XP again I found that the file was labelled HAL.DLL so I renamed it and tried again. That message did not appear, but RC crashed again.

So I then tried to boot from the XP CD to start RC. That does not work as whether or not I choose to "Boot from CD", or just let it run, I just get straight into the installed XP.

What else can I try?

Tony
PS I need to use RC to apply the fixboot command



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