Windows XP Home Edition Startup

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Hi,

I am busy trying to sort out a PC which is having start up problems.
The system is running Home Edition SP1.

The boot sector of the HDD seems to have become corrupted (which would seem
reasonable as the PC owner always directly switches off the power and never
uses the shut down procedure) and so XP cannot boot up.

The XP load screen
http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/wxp_sg_clean_home_03.gif will
appear and the progress bar will scroll but as soon as this is finished the
xp version of the blue screen of the death flashes up and the PC reboots (I
think it is the blue screen of death, it is the screen which usually appears
when a fatal error occurs and the system does a memory dump before restarting)

I have tried booting Windows normally, booting in safe mode and booting with
the last known good config but the same thing happens each time.

I am wary of repairing the Windows install using the XP CD because last time
I did this it caused alot of problems and I ended up having to format the HDD.

I have been told it is possible to manually start XP, which I'm guessing
means using command prompt. I have seen it done before but I cannot remember
how to do it - if someone knows how to do this then that would be very useful

Thanks
Chris
 
I have used a windows xp boot floppy to load up the PC and found that there
is a dll file missing.

I think it was HAL.DLL but it could have been another file, however I know
that it is a dll file missing from the system32 folder.

Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how to replace this file? is the
only way to do a repair?

Thanks
Chris
 
just a quick follow up - the missing file is most definitely either HAL.DLL
or hid.dll

chris
 
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