Halp, it broke it's self! (Or, boot.ini woes)
notveryawesome:
I've heard/read that their products are getting to be better quality, and they do actually have very good support (usually). They also seem to have a lot more upgrades available when ordering from them. I know several people who have Dells, who are perfectly happy with them.
Kazzandra:
Quote from: simsbaby on 2008 June 06, 04:23:46
Please help me, I'm tired, and I at least need to get the files off my laptop. It seems boot.ini ate it's self, and now my laptop is constantly displaying this;
Code:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Windows\System32\Hal.dll
It is also giving me a message when I try to use the windows installer cd by just having the disk in.
"Invalid boot.ini"
*P&L at simsbaby*
Remember this? About SP3? But you were there for me, so I won't laugh as hard. :D I had to restore from recovery discs I'd made.
Quote from: Kazzandra on 2008 May 09, 01:28:09
Fail to boot-- hangs on .sys file.
Fails safemode-- hal.dll is corrupt.
J. M. Pescado:
I have no idae what a "MediaDirect" partition is, but that is not supposed to be a feature of a proper computer. Therefore, something is wrong right there. I suggest physically removing the hard drive, connecting it by adapter cable to another computer, dumping the files, and fdisk/reformatting the entire mess.
Theo:
If the problem is just the boot.ini, you can try to edit it manually. Normally the boot.ini looks like this:
Code:
[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
It's probable your disk layout was configured with this MediaDirect partition before the Windows partition. In that case you'd have to change the "partition(1)" bit to "partition(2)"
If you're not sure, just boot up one of those linux LiveCD, and they will probably have a nice utility for displaying the disk configuration (along with a text editor ;))
witch:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 June 06, 09:50:19
I have no idae what a "MediaDirect" partition is, .....
Often that's where they put the reinstall files these days. I've seen them named a variety of things. Many people don't get a physical CD or DVD anymore.
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