I have two drives, Vista on the primary, XP on the secondary. The secondary has two partitions so I basically have Drive C, D and E. On the first drive the partition is primary and active; it contains the Vista installation. On the second drive both partitions are primary; the first is active and contains the XP installation.
I have NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and boot.ini on C: I used EasyBCD to configure a second selection (XP) for Multi Booting.
Vista boots fine but when I select XP I get the dreaded "hal.dll missing" error
boot.ini references to the XP installation are like this
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)/windows="Windows XP" for both the default OS and the single selection line
Am I missing something? Any suggestions? Will booting from the second drive work?
I've configured this same setup on another PC EXCEPT there are two partitions on ONE drive (C and D no second phys disk) and it works fine.
Thanks
Boo
I have NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and boot.ini on C: I used EasyBCD to configure a second selection (XP) for Multi Booting.
Vista boots fine but when I select XP I get the dreaded "hal.dll missing" error
boot.ini references to the XP installation are like this
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)/windows="Windows XP" for both the default OS and the single selection line
Am I missing something? Any suggestions? Will booting from the second drive work?
I've configured this same setup on another PC EXCEPT there are two partitions on ONE drive (C and D no second phys disk) and it works fine.
Thanks
Boo