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Charlie Bress
The PC is running XP Pro. On startup, Windows fails to load with the message
that the file hal.dll is the culprit.
KB314477 provides several methods to resolve this by using the XP CD. All
attempts at loading the CD have failed. I have changed the boot order to
make the CD prime and have tried inserting the CD when the box is hung up to
see if it would autostart. It doesn't.
One method calls for editing the boot.ini file. The problem is getting to
it.
Here's the question. If I were to pull the harddrive out and put it into
another machine as an external drive (I can do this), is it possible and
feasible to manually edit the boot.ini file as described in KB289022?
Are there any other solutions rather than format and reload?
that the file hal.dll is the culprit.
KB314477 provides several methods to resolve this by using the XP CD. All
attempts at loading the CD have failed. I have changed the boot order to
make the CD prime and have tried inserting the CD when the box is hung up to
see if it would autostart. It doesn't.
One method calls for editing the boot.ini file. The problem is getting to
it.
Here's the question. If I were to pull the harddrive out and put it into
another machine as an external drive (I can do this), is it possible and
feasible to manually edit the boot.ini file as described in KB289022?
Are there any other solutions rather than format and reload?