NOBODY ANSWER ME?:(((( HELP!!

[Guest]

HELP...!!!!! I PASTE AGAIN MY POST....:

I sorry for my english i'm italian: no Italian newsgroup has reply to my
post(((

yesterday I have installed Partition Magic 8 and done a resize of C: (I have
also a LITTLE D: fat16 of acer..).

After the resize I have installed a linux distro in the new free space and
a grub multiboot. All ok for now. Only I had to edit my boot.ini to set the
right partition for windows (from 3 to 4...the problem hal.dll not found...)

However, in the first step windows loading graphic goes up but all freeze
after some seconds.

In safe mode I was able to enter: A LOT OF NeW HARDWARE FOUND! Everything
from video to controller etc...!! A lot of hardware conflict.

Now I solved every conflict installing the right driver for each one (before
xp worked perfectly..mah......)

Now XP in normal/debug mode start but after 10 seconds after login it found
other hardware and go in DUMP (it doesn't save the dump...!!!)

In conflict I have these hardware:
1. Controller floppy disk standard (I don't have a floppy..is a notebook
acer tm 803)
2. Unkown peripheral even on Controller floppy disk submenu
3. Controller host SCSI/RAID

I tried to disinstall..make disable..etc. but nothing these conflict come up
again and windows still found new hardware (controller floppy or scsi..).


THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[philo]

HELP...!!!!! I PASTE AGAIN MY POST....:

I sorry for my english i'm italian: no Italian newsgroup has reply to my
post(((

yesterday I have installed Partition Magic 8 and done a resize of C: (I
have
also a LITTLE D: fat16 of acer..).

After the resize I have installed a linux distro in the new free space and
a grub multiboot. All ok for now. Only I had to edit my boot.ini to set
the
right partition for windows (from 3 to 4...the problem hal.dll not
found...)

However, in the first step windows loading graphic goes up but all freeze
after some seconds.

In safe mode I was able to enter: A LOT OF NeW HARDWARE FOUND! Everything
from video to controller etc...!! A lot of hardware conflict.

I would not have edited boot.ini

you can use grub to boot to either windows or linux...

just a guess, but do you have a second installtation of XP that you are
booting to?
if so...I'd change the default boot back to your original one (presumably
the working version)

 

[Guest]

I will suggest you to check your BIOS settings and disable floppy drive if
there is any.

 

[Guest]

I have no Floppy in bios, I don't have other XP installed (1 is enough).

Why edit boot.ini? Simple:
Suppose to have the boot.ini partition set to number 4, if you add a
partition to the same disk to end of the partition list you have no problem.
But if you add the partition in the middle of partitions list your windows
partition will shift from 3 to 4 and booting windows will not found where to
find files.. Is a simple error explained from microsoft in many KB, so
editing boot.ini and changing partition(3) in partition(4) let windows find
where is and so start booting..

My problem is strange hardware conflict...

 

[Guest]

There is no floppy device in Bios, I think the real conflict problem is the
controller RAID/SCSI...of course I don't have any scsi/raid controller in my
notebook... Windows is crazy and I don't have support from them...bah..

 

[philo]

I have no Floppy in bios, I don't have other XP installed (1 is enough).

Why edit boot.ini? Simple:
Suppose to have the boot.ini partition set to number 4, if you add a
partition to the same disk to end of the partition list you have no
problem.
But if you add the partition in the middle of partitions list your windows
partition will shift from 3 to 4 and booting windows will not found where
to
find files.. Is a simple error explained from microsoft in many KB, so
editing boot.ini and changing partition(3) in partition(4) let windows
find
where is and so start booting..

My problem is strange hardware conflict...

But if windows worked ok with your original boot.ini
I think I'd go back to it

 

[Paul Knudsen]

There is no floppy device in Bios, I think the real conflict problem is the
controller RAID/SCSI...of course I don't have any scsi/raid controller in my
notebook... Windows is crazy and I don't have support from them...bah..

If you have a backup, I'd restore it and start over. Linux is fun to
try out, but any install like that can go terribly wrong! No backup?
Well....

Suggest you keep Windows in the first partition this time.