Gazelle13

Thank you Folks, thanks for all your advice. I managed to obtain a set of XP discs and after a bit of muddling about got things back to normal. Many thanks again, human nature is still tops......... Greetings from Scotland to you all.

Bought a replacement hard drive for son's PC, fitted, recovered, all set up ok. Went to bed, got up, message <Windows boot>\system32\hal.dll appears. Tried the Recovery Console, no joy. Any suggestions please. Thanks in advance. Windows XP Home Edition, new drive is Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500Gb

Hi all, hope someone can help me. Meantime may the gremlins never get us down !!