The other day I had a power outage, and the hal.dll file turned out to be
corrupt or missing. I got the good hal.dll file in with the boot disk. How
do you configure the boot.ini file so it can run command prompt in order to
move the good hal.dll file to the hard drive?

Help is greatly appreciated!!!!

Bryan Asche wrote:

> The other day I had a power outage, and the hal.dll file turned out to
> be
> corrupt or missing. I got the good hal.dll file in with the boot
> disk. How do you configure the boot.ini file so it can run command
> prompt in order to move the good hal.dll file to the hard drive?
>
> Help is greatly appreciated!!!!

Set the BIOS to boot to the CD first. Boot the XP CD and, instead of
Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password requested
is blank, and TAB over.

Use
Attrib -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
DEL C:\boot.ini
to delete the bad one
BootCfg /Rebuild

to search for Windows installations and make a new one.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

The only problem with that is that we tried to arrange the boot order to have
the CD run first but it don't have that option. it's the A drive, the hard
drive, and ethernet. I tested the CD player to see if it would run the boot
disk that I put on a CD and it didn't work. Would there be a way where I can
get the boot disk to run command prompt just so I can move the good file to
replace the bad one?

"Malke" wrote:

> Bryan Asche wrote:
>
> > The other day I had a power outage, and the hal.dll file turned out to
> > be
> > corrupt or missing. I got the good hal.dll file in with the boot
> > disk. How do you configure the boot.ini file so it can run command
> > prompt in order to move the good hal.dll file to the hard drive?
> >
> > Help is greatly appreciated!!!!
>
> Set the BIOS to boot to the CD first. Boot the XP CD and, instead of
> Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password requested
> is blank, and TAB over.
>
> Use
> Attrib -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
> DEL C:\boot.ini
> to delete the bad one
> BootCfg /Rebuild
>
> to search for Windows installations and make a new one.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Bryan Asche wrote:

> The only problem with that is that we tried to arrange the boot order
> to have
> the CD run first but it don't have that option. it's the A drive, the
> hard
> drive, and ethernet. I tested the CD player to see if it would run
> the boot
> disk that I put on a CD and it didn't work. Would there be a way
> where I can get the boot disk to run command prompt just so I can move
> the good file to replace the bad one?

Unless this is an ancient computer, if the optical drive isn't being
seen in the BIOS as a boot option then you have hardware problems. It
is quite possible that your power outage fried components on the
motherboard. Take the machine to a professional (not your local version
of BigStoreUSA) for testing.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User