DDO preventing me from installing XP on a new hard drive!

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I have a new Seagate drive, which I purchased after my last hard drive
finally gave out. When installing XP Home, I get a very wierd error "windows
could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows
root>\system32\hal.dll. After posting my issue earlier and doing some
research on the links provided (thank you!), I discovered a few websites that
stated my issue was related to a DDO (dynamic drive overlay). I am not even
sure what that is, but I suspect that my Seagate has it because someone had a
similar problem with the same drive. The website in question,
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm, suggested that I had
to disable the DDO to be able to install XP.

Can anyone help with this? I am really confused and unsure what to do. Any
help would be appreciated!!!

Thank you

 

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Well, I figured out how to disable the DDO, and my Windows installer
recognizes the drives true size of 400Gb. Unfortunately, this didn't solve
my hal.dll issue. I checked other posts on the hal issue and ran through the
suggestions posted by dev and Ken Blake (fixes from the microsoft site) which
included using the recovery console to repair the boot log, and manually
expanding the hal.dll file from the disk, but nothing worked. I am begining
to think Windows is lying to me and the file is really still there, but for
some reason it isn't working. This all started happening when I upgraded to
the large Seagate drive...

Please, someone, anyone... Help!

Thank you!!!