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I'm still trying to correct a situation with a friend's Gateway 500SE
computer.Dual OS - XP Pro & Home - (I think Pro is bootleg?? Her daughter's
classmate "helped" fix it by installing Pro, but it seems underlying problems
prevail.)
In trying to remove Pro by deleting folder and editing boot.ini file, I got
hal.dll file missing or corrupt and Windows wouldn't start. I backtracked and
tried to see if I could get Home to start first by editing boot.ini, but
didn't seem to work.
I would really like the Home version to be first in OS choices, since that
is what the computer came with and seems to run OK. The boot.ini file looks
normal compared with KB article, except in lines listing each OS:
(first) "...XP Professional"/noexecute=optin/fastdetect and
second line is: "XP Home Edition"/fastdetect
Also good to mention that this kid put Pro in same partition as Home. Is
that why I'm having trouble?? (with hal.dll etc)
Again, I'd like to get the Home version to come up first in boot .ini and
then I can make the timeout be zero. Younger kids in their family will be
using this, and I don't want them to get it all messed up.
computer.Dual OS - XP Pro & Home - (I think Pro is bootleg?? Her daughter's
classmate "helped" fix it by installing Pro, but it seems underlying problems
prevail.)
In trying to remove Pro by deleting folder and editing boot.ini file, I got
hal.dll file missing or corrupt and Windows wouldn't start. I backtracked and
tried to see if I could get Home to start first by editing boot.ini, but
didn't seem to work.
I would really like the Home version to be first in OS choices, since that
is what the computer came with and seems to run OK. The boot.ini file looks
normal compared with KB article, except in lines listing each OS:
(first) "...XP Professional"/noexecute=optin/fastdetect and
second line is: "XP Home Edition"/fastdetect
Also good to mention that this kid put Pro in same partition as Home. Is
that why I'm having trouble?? (with hal.dll etc)
Again, I'd like to get the Home version to come up first in boot .ini and
then I can make the timeout be zero. Younger kids in their family will be
using this, and I don't want them to get it all messed up.