WHAT HAVE I DONE????
Sunday, April 2, 2006 by dj_cityboy | Discussion: Personal Computing
i decided today was a good day to install Vista 5308 to check it out.so i did do the install on an old 40gb drive i had and everything went fine.......took some screenshots and saved them to my 80gb drive.....
shutdown and take out the 40gb drive and plugged my 200gb back in start her up and get this message
(or something like it)
so i shut my pc down (crap my pants) and start it back up WTF!! same thing......
unplug my 80gb and it boots?? WEIRD??
so i shut it down again....and plug my 80gb back in........
and do not wanna format!!!
i have no clue whats is goin on......and am very afraid now!!
can you help me out
PLEASE....
thanx a ton
peas
cityboy
Reply #2 Sunday, April 2, 2006 3:01 PM
its a lil to geeky for me i think....(and here i thought i was a geek) lol
i wanna do this as quick and as less painful as possible (without having to reinstall)
ant info you have would be awesome (as long as i can understand it) lol
like i said thanx a ton!
peas
cityboy
Reply #3 Sunday, April 2, 2006 3:13 PM
You need to edit that file to remove the OS you don't want.
Pop in a bootable floppy or in some other way get to the boot.in file on the drive that's throwing a fit.
Edit the boot.ini (in dos, type "edit boot.ini"
)It should look something like this when you are done:
| [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn |
Good luck.
And kids . . . let this be a warning to you about using beta software on production systems.
Reply #4 Sunday, April 2, 2006 3:19 PM
And kids . . . let this be a warning to you about using beta software on production systems.
see the thing is i didnt think it was goin to be a problem......i thought it was gonna be simple!
but i guess not?
now my 200gb drive has a partition on it C: is 127gb and E: is 58.3gb my XP Pro is on the c: (of course)
i have the xp disc can that help me out? without formatting of course...
thanx
cityboy
Reply #5 Sunday, April 2, 2006 3:22 PM
| i have the xp disc can that help me out? |
Boot from your CD and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. Then type:
Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini {enter}
DEL C:\Boot.ini {enter}
BootCfg /Rebuild {enter}
Fixboot {enter}
And don't hold me responsible for the free tech support.
Reply #6 Sunday, April 2, 2006 3:25 PM
if you ever need any help or i can ever do anything for you lemme know!
cause if this werks..you will have saved the day!!
um checkin a post i made on aeroxp and see if anyone else has any other info.....but i will try what yer telling me out fer sure!!
peas
cityboy!
(ill be here off and on to check for updates)
Reply #7 Sunday, April 2, 2006 4:41 PM
http://www.aeroxp.net/board/index.php?showtopic=2886&st=0&gopid=29772&
follow that link.....its to the info i posted on aeroxp.....?
anymore ideas??
peas
cityboy
Reply #8 Sunday, April 2, 2006 4:57 PM
Reply #11 Monday, April 3, 2006 12:08 PM
my question to Zubaz is check this link out http://www.aeroxp.net/board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2027
cause i searched the XP to find what is in the screenshot? can i copy and paste one of those in to my system32 folder?
peas
cityboy
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 4, 2006 1:07 PM
| \system32\hal.dll missing or corrupted......install xp disc |
Probably a dumb question, but did you install the disc and see if it automatically repairs?
Note - if you can't get into recovery console (you might try hitting enter at password request, in case you did not set one), you can edit the boot.ini file from in the Windows interfact via "Right-click My Computer > Properties > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery section "Settings" button > Click "Edit" button to edit, and then save.
If you are not sure, you can simply copy the text after clicking the "Edit" button, and paste here to see if you have a dual boot set, or some other anomaly.
To copy a hal.dll file to the problem drive, you need to make sure it is a file from the correct version of Windows (including SP). I have not had to do that procedure, so I do not know whether or not manually overwriting the file will work without registering it with "regsvr32.exe".
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 4, 2006 1:29 PM
Extra:
For those wanting to bone up on the boot.ini file, here is a good, but dated read http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/bootini.htm
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 4, 2006 1:45 PM
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Reply #15 Tuesday, April 4, 2006 8:37 PM
see i tried a couple of things that were recommended and didnt really get anywhere?
and um not ubergeek2000 either......which doesnt really help me either!
i did ask some dude from my work and think i have it figured out....
i did think for a moment i accidentally formatted my 80gb (not cool)
but then remembered it showed the Vista HD(40gb) and the 80gb drive!
in My Computer so all is good there! PHEW!
im goin to werk on it tomorrow and see what i can do....i hope it works out though cause i have been without my media for 3 days and and im starting the get the shakes (LOL)
thanx a ton Corky O for the input i will try what you and the dude from work has recommended!
peas
cityboy
Reply #16 Thursday, April 6, 2006 4:58 PM
this is what i got from the edit page:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
doesnt mean to much to me but.....
i did try some things the "dude" from woerk told me but that didnt werk either....
still confused???
peas
cityboy
Reply #17 Thursday, April 6, 2006 6:20 PM
dj,
Your boot.ini looks ok.
Mine is similar, but slightly different:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
My guess would be that something got messed up on the 80 GB drive that you use to hold important files - probably happened when Vista interacted with the drive. It may be that the drive is having issues, and this is the result.
Have you already tried to insert the XP CD as requested by the message at boot to repair the files? If so, what was the result?
Assuming the insertion of the CD won't work for you for some reason, there are a couple of things I would try:
1 - If possible, take the 80GB drive and connect it to another computer running XP Pro as a slave drive on the same IDE channel (ribbon cable) as the hard drive that has the Operating System installed on it (usually the primary IDE), and boot the computer to see if the 80GB will allow that system to boot and is recognized. If so, then we know the fault is on your Master drive somewhere (probably the "hal.dll" file mentioned by the error).
2 - Try connecting the drive on your machine to the slave position on your secondary IDE (ribbon cable), which most people connect the optical drives (CD/DVD) drives to > boot machine to see if a successful boot can be accomplished and to see if the drive is recognized and accessible.
*Note - before doing procedure #2, go into the BIOS settings and set the drive with the XP Pro Operating System installed on it as the first boot device, making sure the CD and/or any secondary channel devices are after this drive (this will be in the boot order, or boot sequence section of the BIOS settings) > save your settings and exit.
3 - You can download the correct "hal.dll" file for XP Service Pack 2 here http://www.dlldump.com/dll-files/H_1.html > overwrite the file in "WINDOWS\System32" folder > go to the cmd prompt (Start > Run > type: cmd > hit Enter > type: regsvr32.exe hal.dll (you can copy the text here if you want to paste into command line) > reboot machine to test the current file's functionality.
If all is well, try connecting the 80GB drive and test to see if you can boot successfully.
Note - I would only try #3 after all options have been exhausted, and previous to a clean install and possible reformat of the 80GB drive. You should attempt to determine which drive (or file on which drive) is causing the issue before replacing any files. I would also burn the current "hal.dll" file in you system folder to disc before overwriting it.
If you find that the 80GB drive does not boot on another machine running XP Pro, and you can access it from the secondary cable for some reason, then I would suggest moving the contents to the 200 GB drive and the format it. If you can perform a successful boot after formatting, then replacing the data would be quite easy.
Anyway, just a few things to try.
Reply #18 Thursday, April 6, 2006 6:23 PM
Reply #19 Friday, April 7, 2006 4:07 PM
you came with backup!!
WHOA!!!
dude thanx fer the info this will get tackled this weekend for sure....
i will try all you have asked me to try..
and thanx fer the hal.dll files find as well!!
that will do it um sure....
i will do step 1, 2 and then 3 if need be!
i'll let you know what happens!
peas
cityboy
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Reply #1 Sunday, April 2, 2006 2:37 PM