Re: Home Edition Startup Files

On Thu, 5 May 2005 08:54:08 -0700, "Chris"
<Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am busy trying to sort out a PC which is having start up problems.
>The system is running Home Edition SP1.
>
>The boot sector of the HDD seems to have become corrupted (which would seem
>reasonable as the PC owner always directly switches off the power and never
>uses the shut down procedure) and so XP cannot boot up.
>
>The XP load screen
>http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/wxp_sg_clean_home_03.gif will
>appear and the progress bar will scroll but as soon as this is finished the
>xp version of the blue screen of the death flashes up and the PC reboots (I
>think it is the blue screen of death, it is the screen which usually appears
>when a fatal error occurs and the system does a memory dump before restarting)
>
>I have tried booting Windows normally, booting in safe mode and booting with
>the last known good config but the same thing happens each time.
>
>I am wary of repairing the Windows install using the XP CD because last time
>I did this it caused alot of problems and I ended up having to format the HDD.
>
>I have been told it is possible to manually start XP, which I'm guessing
>means using command prompt. I have seen it done before but I cannot remember
>how to do it - if someone knows how to do this then that would be very useful
>
>I Recently used a XP boot floppy to load the PC and was told that a dll file
>was missing from the system32 folder. Could anyone tell me how to restore
>these files?
>
>the missing file is most definitely either HAL.DLL or hid.dll but i am not
>sure which
>
>Thanks
>Chris
See this for some idea's re: Hal.dll
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

Dave
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