Sailorcancer
Active Member
Hey,
I had to reinstall Win7. Anyways following the advice from the previous topic I made about dual booting between the two OSs I managed to get into some more trouble.
So some back stories.
- The drive that has Win7 has two partitions. (I don't know why it does it but it does) a 111GB and 200MB partitions. The 200MB one is the active one which is where I need to put the three files from XP. boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr.
- I dediced to try something different and make the 111GB partition the active one and put the three files in there. When I did that I could not boot into either XP or 7. A error saying that hal.dll was corupted and I could not go on would come up. I then had to go into my bios and swap HDDs boot up go into XP make the 200MB partition the active and then deleted the boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr from the 111GB partition. Then swap again in BIOS and I was able to get back into 7.
- So then I assiged a drive letter to the 200MB partition and stuck the boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr in the drive. Went into BCD and told it to boot from that drive letter. Again I get the "hal.dll corrupted".
So what do I do? They want me to reinstall it and I don't know which Hal file is corrupted 7s or XPs.
Thanks for the help.
I had to reinstall Win7. Anyways following the advice from the previous topic I made about dual booting between the two OSs I managed to get into some more trouble.
So some back stories.
- The drive that has Win7 has two partitions. (I don't know why it does it but it does) a 111GB and 200MB partitions. The 200MB one is the active one which is where I need to put the three files from XP. boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr.
- I dediced to try something different and make the 111GB partition the active one and put the three files in there. When I did that I could not boot into either XP or 7. A error saying that hal.dll was corupted and I could not go on would come up. I then had to go into my bios and swap HDDs boot up go into XP make the 200MB partition the active and then deleted the boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr from the 111GB partition. Then swap again in BIOS and I was able to get back into 7.
- So then I assiged a drive letter to the 200MB partition and stuck the boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr in the drive. Went into BCD and told it to boot from that drive letter. Again I get the "hal.dll corrupted".
So what do I do? They want me to reinstall it and I don't know which Hal file is corrupted 7s or XPs.
Thanks for the help.