I have a dual-boot Win 7 64 and Win XP setup using EasyBCD. I installed SP3 the other night to the XP partition. It restarted just fine. Now, however, I get the good ol' "the hal.dll file is corrupted or missing." When I go in through the XP Recovery Console, I don't see either Windows installation listed, so I can't copy the file back into Windows (nor can I rewrite the boot.ini). I'm assuming that this is due to the way EasyBCD sets up partitions. But the BIGGEST problem is that when I attempt to launch from the boot disc I made when I installed EasyBCD, my drive can't read the disc! I'm here today to put whatever I need onto a flash drive and try to fix things using that, but I thought I'd post my issue in order to elicit any helpful feedback ya'll might have. Thank you!
Addendum:
It occurs to me that, given the new way Win 7 handles partitions, maybe I need to use the Console using the Win 7 install disc. Still, I would have thought both my Windows installations would be listed using EITHER disc's Recovery Console
Addendum:
It occurs to me that, given the new way Win 7 handles partitions, maybe I need to use the Console using the Win 7 install disc. Still, I would have thought both my Windows installations would be listed using EITHER disc's Recovery Console
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