casper03
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after serious problems with dual boot xp\me i decided to
bite the bullet and reformat the ME side of the hard drive....
thats when it all began, firstly i couldnt get it to boot at all
then after hours of voilent head banging on walls and floors
and anything else i could bang the daft thing off i had an idea
so i reinstalled windows ME on the back end of the drive with xp
still sitting there on a hidden partition.
so i reinstalled bootmagic and thought yes! thats me sorted
so i set it up to boot between the two os's boots into me no
problems.
but when i try to boot into the xp side that took about two month
to perfect i got this message
"windows could not start because the following file is either missing or corrupt <windows root>system32\hal.dll.
can anyone tell me how to rienstall a copy of this file to the hidden partition and where do i extract it from as i have never heard of it before....
many many many thanks to all on this site
and all the best for the coming festive season
bite the bullet and reformat the ME side of the hard drive....
thats when it all began, firstly i couldnt get it to boot at all
then after hours of voilent head banging on walls and floors
and anything else i could bang the daft thing off i had an idea
so i reinstalled windows ME on the back end of the drive with xp
still sitting there on a hidden partition.
so i reinstalled bootmagic and thought yes! thats me sorted
so i set it up to boot between the two os's boots into me no
problems.
but when i try to boot into the xp side that took about two month
to perfect i got this message
"windows could not start because the following file is either missing or corrupt <windows root>system32\hal.dll.
can anyone tell me how to rienstall a copy of this file to the hidden partition and where do i extract it from as i have never heard of it before....
many many many thanks to all on this site
and all the best for the coming festive season