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Fred
Hope this doesn't duplicate, but I waited 15 minutes for
the first to appear.
Computer is(was) running XP Home upgrade from W98.
Standard setup - 2 HDD IDE 0 pri and sec.
System partition D: was full and I couldn't install
Partition Magic to change the sizes, so I went in and
deleted some stuff using Explorer. While I was at it I
erased the contents of the Z: parition which had some old
windows stuff on it.
Rebooted after using Cleansweep and after POST got:
INVALID BOOT.INI FILE
BOOTING FROM C:\WINDOWS\
Next message is:
WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS
MISSING OR CORRUPT:
WINDOWS ROOT\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL
PLEASE RE-INSTALL A COPY OF THE ABOVE FILE.
Now, for the complications - C: partition was being used
as a games parition. The system files were kept on D: in
the perhaps misguided opinion that most software will
default to C:. There a few people who have admin
privileges for installation and thought this would keep
the system partition from filling up with software.
So, XP will not start because of the deleted Z: part.
reinstalling W98 only gives the options of installing to
C: or D:. Don't really want to overwrite the contents of
either and Z: partition is not given as an option.
Is there a floppy boot prog that will undelete Z:?, or can
I somehow force the installation of W98 to Z:?, or ....??
the first to appear.
Computer is(was) running XP Home upgrade from W98.
Standard setup - 2 HDD IDE 0 pri and sec.
System partition D: was full and I couldn't install
Partition Magic to change the sizes, so I went in and
deleted some stuff using Explorer. While I was at it I
erased the contents of the Z: parition which had some old
windows stuff on it.
Rebooted after using Cleansweep and after POST got:
INVALID BOOT.INI FILE
BOOTING FROM C:\WINDOWS\
Next message is:
WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS
MISSING OR CORRUPT:
WINDOWS ROOT\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL
PLEASE RE-INSTALL A COPY OF THE ABOVE FILE.
Now, for the complications - C: partition was being used
as a games parition. The system files were kept on D: in
the perhaps misguided opinion that most software will
default to C:. There a few people who have admin
privileges for installation and thought this would keep
the system partition from filling up with software.
So, XP will not start because of the deleted Z: part.
reinstalling W98 only gives the options of installing to
C: or D:. Don't really want to overwrite the contents of
either and Z: partition is not given as an option.
Is there a floppy boot prog that will undelete Z:?, or can
I somehow force the installation of W98 to Z:?, or ....??