Mr. Retardo
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- Mar 31, 2008
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So here's the deal.... I have a gateway laptop with windows XP home on it. I needed XP Pro to run a program at work on so I got a disk from a friend that was supposed to have it on it. I started up my computer, put the disk in, I think I answered UPGRADE to a question (then thought I probably shouldn't have put that because I'm not upgrading my current installation) and then it started installing. I thought all was well.... then it came up with an error that said it couldn't locate a version of windows to upgrade or something to that effect. I shut it down and restarted, then I have the option of booting into Pro or Home..... hmmm... never had this before..... I tried to boot into home and it says my hal.dll file is missing or corrupted, please reinstall. So I go get my recovery disk for my gateway and try to boot up with it and it just keeps giving me the hal.dll bologna. If I boot into Pro it is only halfway through the install and gives me a message that says it can't locate the windows that I'm trying to upgrade. Either way I can't boot into windows and now I'm stuck. I've tried safe mode and I've pressed F8 and F10 and I can't find this recovery center I've read about. I can't get to a command prompt. All I really want to do is wipe the hard drive and install the XP pro but now i've got it stuck halfway between the two!!! SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!! Please help mr. retardo.... Please.... for pennies a day you can end the suffering....