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| 685041 | 2008-07-04 23:30:00 | 5.Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press R to repair Windows XP. Got through to here. The screen does not show an OS but shows the two drives and partitions on those drives and asks where to install. Selected the drive that has the OS on it and it is now wanting to format so I stopped |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 685042 | 2008-07-05 01:32:00 | Okay - Looks like Ubuntu has screwed something big time - Sometimes this works some times doesn't - If you can boot from the XP CD, log into the recovery Console - As Long as you can see C:\Windows> type in chkdsk press Enter. If that doesn't work, log in recovery console from C:\Windows> type in fixmbr <Enter> agree= to any prompts Did you try the suggestion in post 24? IF that doesn't work, you can try creating in a new boot file, log into the recovery Console, type in bootcfg /add Follow the instruction through to put in a New boot file, Details from previous posts of standard boot.ini |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 685043 | 2008-07-05 02:11:00 | No I didnt try that. (tried editing the boot.ini through Ubantu. Was able to alter it and save it but it made no difference) Should I try that (#24)before I do the chkdsk etc you suggested |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 685044 | 2008-07-05 03:38:00 | Run Chkdsk first, I suspect it wont actually fix the problem, but what it may do is sort out the files that have been altered as something may be causing the boot loader to still read incorrectly. As Highlighted in #24 "Assuming that a missing or corrupt boot.ini file was your only issue" Try them all 1 at a time, if those dont work then theres something that's not right that could take hours to fix - you got to know when to say "Enough" and start it again - bit like one of my servers went belly up Thursday - tried to fix it but no joy, even the repair installed failed - saving data to another disk now and reinstalling from fresh in a few minutes - will take about 30 minutes with the recovery systems I use, then dump the data back. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 685045 | 2008-07-05 04:12:00 | Thanks for that WT. Will give them a go as you suggest. Interesting development. I was exiting from the repair about where it wanted to format. It tried to restart and came up with an error Windows could not start as the following file is missing or corrupt. (windows root)\system 32\hal.dll Please reinstall a copy of the above file Woiuld this be the, or part of the, problem? |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 685046 | 2008-07-05 05:43:00 | Go back into the recovery console on your windows cd. Fixmbr is the command you are looking for. I've had the same problem in the past when grub took over the boot section of my drive. Just type fixmbr hit enter and choose yes | J_Joyce (6569) | ||
| 685047 | 2008-07-05 06:02:00 | Thanks J Tried that. Said it had fixed it. Didnt work. Still looking for hal.dll Getting sick of stuffing around. Almost ready to reinstall. LOL |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 685048 | 2008-07-05 06:05:00 | Since theres 2 different hdd's, last time I used Ubuntu . All I did was boot into windows and format the other hdd . Copied the boot . ini I had copied previously back into boot . ini, saved it and rebooted . That was it Windows booted by itself |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 685049 | 2008-07-05 06:12:00 | two options with hal.dll , (thats the hardware layer) Start the recovery console - ( think you know how now) You need to expand the CD to extract a new hal.dll --- At the command prompt expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll. Substitute d: for the drive letter of your CD. Once you have expanded the file type "exit" to exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer. If that doesn't work - Boot from your XP CD and follow the directions to start Recovery Console ( again ;) ) . Then: ( hit enter after each line) Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini DEL C:\Boot.ini BootCfg /Rebuild Fixboot |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 685050 | 2008-07-05 06:19:00 | All of the above has just happened to me. Computer running Windows xp pro & Puppy 4 Linux. Installed Ubuntu 8.04 from PC World DVD (made CD) on an ext2 logical partition. Result was that Windows would not boot any more, Puppy still worked. Restored Windows from Acronis Image, still no go. Booted with XP CD and repaired MBR & Boot. Still nothing!! Reformatted (with Puppy) the ext2 to remove Ubuntu. Ditto Ptn1 then reinstalled XP & is now OK. I have no idea what went wrong, but nothing worked. I have never had this problem with Linux before, and have various flavours of Linux on all the time. By the way, Puppy is great for dealing to Windows, recovering files etc. |
mzee (3324) | ||
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