Re: Hal.dll startup message

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From: Johnny Hawk (JohnnyHawk_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:04:03 -0800

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately it has been so many years since I
actually used the DOS prompt commands, I can't recall all the phrases and how
to type the
specific commands you listed to get a result. (memory is going with age I
guess).
Any chance you could "dummy" it up a bit for me and break down the suggestions
shown below... thanks Johnny Hawk

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> You have Boot.INI trouble. Boot from CD, and start the Recovery Console Use
> the command 'type C:\boot.ini' save the file for backup,
> Identify your drives with the 'MAP' utility.
> Compare the entries in the boot.ini [operating system] block, with the
> results you see from 'Map arc'.
> At this point you may see a way to hack boot.ini. You might try various
> edits from backup.
>
> The recovery console utilities
> bootcfg /rebuild
> and
> fixboot
> may help you do that.
>

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