boot disk with command prompt

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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 said:
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!!!!
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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
 
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?
 
Bryan said:
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?
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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
 
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