Guest GrayGhost Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 I had WinXP Pro crash on me (don't ask me why), so I reinstalled it and since I had the opportunity I used PowerQuest PartitionMagic to breakdown my C: Drive into C: & D:, but in the process of doing that I lost power to the system (again, don't ask me why). I thought no big deal I'll just reinstall WinXP Pro again. I was totally successful in doing it, successful in splitting my drive into 2, and got all my programs loaded just fine. However, whenever I do a power off/on reboot of my system I get a start up screen as if I had 2 operating systems, the only difference is I don't! But I get two choices of "Microsoft Windows XP Professional". The first works just great, but the second one obviously left over from my first aborted attempt and doesn't work at all. When I try booting from the second one I get the following msg: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.dll Please re-install a copy of the above file" . And then the system freezes. And if I were to go into debugging mode, using the F8 key, I get the same statement. Is there any way I can get rid of the second operating system choice? It's just a nuisance and doesn't cause any problems, but I sure would like to get rid of it. GrayGhost
Guest Jerry Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 Re: Twp Win XP Pro's Edit boot.ini in the root of the C:\ drive to remove the option for the non-existant OS. "GrayGhost" <GrayGhost@nc.rr.com> wrote in message news:46fea4f9$0$18955$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >I had WinXP Pro crash on me (don't ask me why), so I reinstalled it and >since I had the opportunity I used PowerQuest PartitionMagic to breakdown >my C: Drive into C: & D:, but in the process of doing that I lost power to >the system (again, don't ask me why). > > I thought no big deal I'll just reinstall WinXP Pro again. I was totally > successful in doing it, successful in splitting my drive into 2, and got > all my programs loaded just fine. > > However, whenever I do a power off/on reboot of my system I get a start up > screen as if I had 2 operating systems, the only difference is I don't! > But I get two choices of "Microsoft Windows XP Professional". The first > works just great, but the second one obviously left over from my first > aborted attempt and doesn't work at all. > > When I try booting from the second one I get the following msg: > "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: > <windows root>\system32\hal.dll > Please re-install a copy of the above file" . And then the system freezes. > And if I were to go into debugging mode, using the F8 key, I get the same > statement. > > Is there any way I can get rid of the second operating system choice? It's > just a nuisance and doesn't cause any problems, but I sure would like to > get rid of it. > > GrayGhost > >
Guest GrayGhost Posted September 29, 2007 Posted September 29, 2007 Re: Twp Win XP Pro's It worked like a charm! Thank You, GrayGhost "Jerry" <ChiefZekeNoSpam@MSN.com> wrote in message news:eTOJz6sAIHA.4828@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Edit boot.ini in the root of the C:\ drive to remove the option for the > non-existant OS. > > "GrayGhost" <GrayGhost@nc.rr.com> wrote in message > news:46fea4f9$0$18955$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >>I had WinXP Pro crash on me (don't ask me why), so I reinstalled it and >>since I had the opportunity I used PowerQuest PartitionMagic to breakdown >>my C: Drive into C: & D:, but in the process of doing that I lost power to >>the system (again, don't ask me why). >> >> I thought no big deal I'll just reinstall WinXP Pro again. I was totally >> successful in doing it, successful in splitting my drive into 2, and got >> all my programs loaded just fine. >> >> However, whenever I do a power off/on reboot of my system I get a start >> up screen as if I had 2 operating systems, the only difference is I >> don't! But I get two choices of "Microsoft Windows XP Professional". The >> first works just great, but the second one obviously left over from my >> first aborted attempt and doesn't work at all. >> >> When I try booting from the second one I get the following msg: >> "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or >> corrupt: >> <windows root>\system32\hal.dll >> Please re-install a copy of the above file" . And then the system >> freezes. And if I were to go into debugging mode, using the F8 key, I get >> the same statement. >> >> Is there any way I can get rid of the second operating system choice? >> It's just a nuisance and doesn't cause any problems, but I sure would >> like to get rid of it. >> >> GrayGhost >> >> > >
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