Re: Hal.dll startup message

From: Mark L. Ferguson (marfer_mvpREMOVE_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:14:22 -0600

Well, if you don't want to do much tinkering, you can just boot to the setup
CD, and press 'r' for repair to open the Recovery Console prompt. Run the
command:

BOOTCFG /REBUILD

It will prompt you about what you want to include.

That should stop the HAL error, and allow the systems installed to boot from
the startup menu 

-- 
Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
marfers notes for windows xp 
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Johnny Hawk" <JohnnyHawk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:2BEF9856-2E11-489E-AFE1-DC0B77AAC488@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>>
>