Re: Boot.ini problem




david wrote:
Hi
I have had the same experience, error on system32\hal.dll
I do not have a floppy drive and have tried booting up from the disc.When I
get to the C:\WINDOWS> I do not know what do do next, if someone could
explain what to do next, I would be very gratefull ( in siple terms please)
Thanks to you


if you got to C:\WINDOWS> from a win98 boot disk or disc or win98
setup disc, then you got it wrong.
if you are at the recovery console, (e.g. from a win xp cd) then good.
if not then do that.

done? In which case your "experience" is SLIGHTLY BETTER than the OP,
since the OP is having trouble getting to that.


There is a solution from the recovery console.
see those 3 useful commands "fixboot, fixmbr, bootcfg"
particularly bootcfg /rebuild

do bootcfg /rebuild

that's

C:\WINDOWS>bootcfg /rebuild <ENTER>

and say yes if it prompts you with any questions. (It might. I can't
and needn't remember if it does)

.



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