XP Pro Upgrade won't recognize my original Win98 CD

[Guest]

About 6 months ago I upgraded my computer from Win98 to XP Pro. It ran
beautifully until last night. Computer was running when we either had a
micro power outage, or a spike that my power protectors couldn't handle.
Three other computers re-booted themselves with no problems, but the forth
locked up and would not function at all. Had to re-boot by cycling the power
switch on the rear on the case. On boot up I got the message "NTLDR
missing". After some research, I copied the missing file from the XP Disk to
the root directory. New error message "... cannot find HAL.DLL in the
system32 directory".

I ended up trying to re-install XP from the original disk. Because it was
an upgrade from Win98 it asked for the original Win98 CD. But it won't, or
can't recognize my CD. It is the original CD that came with my computer
years ago.

Has anyone got any suggestions how I can make it recognize the CD?

 

[Guest]

Buy the way, both CD's are legitimate. (Win98 and XP Pro).

Shouldn't have to mention that, but nowadys...

Dan.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I don't know if your CD is bad or not, but it seems that way from your
account of the process. It should be working fine that way.
I suggest another tack on your problem. The HAL error indicates a missing or
damaged Boot.ini file in the c: root. Booting to CD, and pressing 'r' for
repair gives you the Recovery Console prompt, and you can run FIXBOOT, and
then BOOTCFG /REBUILD to repair that.