XP Boot Problem

[David Lyons]

I am having terrible problems with booting up XP and was wondering if
someone could help.

I foolishly amended the Windows boot.ini file with the intention of removing
a redundant boot reference and now the pc will not let get back into windows
xp - the error message i receive is :-

"windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll"

To get into the pc to repair/fix the file is impossible - it simply won't
let me in - even in safe mode - when i attempt to run the boot up disks for
XP i receive the following message just as the last disk finishes :-

"a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer

page_fault_in_nonpaged_area"

Can anyoen advise id there any way at all I can get into XP from here? Any
help would be wonderful.

I am not bothered about losing data - I just want to get into the computer
even if it means losing files that are on the hard drive.

Thanks in advance.

David Lyons.

 

[stephen spud]

put in the xp installation cd and reboot. make sure you
change the boot sequence in the bios to boot from the cd
drive. the easiest way is to reinstall xp. but i think u
should try repair windows first.