System is multi-boot XP & Windows 7.
After replacement of the motherboard and re-activation of XP and W7 everything appeared OK. But after tweaking the boot sector (with Vista BootPro I am ashamed to say) I cannot start XP anymore and get the message:
Windows cannot be started because the following file is corrupt or missing: <root>\system32\hal.dll>
Install again
Windows7start without problems.
What have we done sofar?:
- Recovery console bootcfg procedure (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330184)
- Cahnged and rewritten Boot.ini (using via XP safe mode)
- EasyBCD (in Windows 7)
- Replaced Hal.dll with a hal.dll file from a working XP system.
Any suggestions except re-installations?
After replacement of the motherboard and re-activation of XP and W7 everything appeared OK. But after tweaking the boot sector (with Vista BootPro I am ashamed to say) I cannot start XP anymore and get the message:
Windows cannot be started because the following file is corrupt or missing: <root>\system32\hal.dll>
Install again
Windows7start without problems.
What have we done sofar?:
- Recovery console bootcfg procedure (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330184)
- Cahnged and rewritten Boot.ini (using via XP safe mode)
- EasyBCD (in Windows 7)
- Replaced Hal.dll with a hal.dll file from a working XP system.
Any suggestions except re-installations?