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July 28th 10, 10:31 PM
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Hal.dll trouble
"Brian K" wrote in message nd.com... from what you say I may delete the recovery & restore partition so that I only have one partition on the HD and restore the image and let it write a standard XP MBR to the disk. Sam, That is an excellent idea. Then the single partition will always be partition(1) in boot.ini. You may have to edit boot.ini on the first occasion if your imaging app doesn't make the change. Writing a Standard MBR doesn't alter the partition table or the Disk Signature. Just the boot code. Brian Downloaded easeus Partition Master, wiped out the two partitions and 7 1/2 hours later the computer booted up on PBR 1 all by it's self, no tweaking from me required. Will keep running it and see what happens. Sure hope that took care of the problem. Thanks for the help. Sam 
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#12
July 28th 10, 11:24 PM
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Hal.dll trouble
"Brian K" wrote in message nd.com... from what you say I may delete the recovery & restore partition so that I only have one partition on the HD and restore the image and let it write a standard XP MBR to the disk. Sam, That is an excellent idea. Then the single partition will always be partition(1) in boot.ini. You may have to edit boot.ini on the first occasion if your imaging app doesn't make the change. Writing a Standard MBR doesn't alter the partition table or the Disk Signature. Just the boot code. Forgot to mention that I expanded Partition 2 c: to take up the space from Partition 1 & 3 I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files. Sam
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#13
July 28th 10, 11:59 PM
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Hal.dll trouble
"Sam" wrote in message ... I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files. Yes. It had to move all the files in your WinXP partition. It shouldn't cause a hal.dll error anymore. Please let us know if there is a problem.
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#14
August 8th 10, 02:43 AM
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Hal.dll trouble
"Brian K" wrote in message nd.com... "Sam" wrote in message ... I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files. Yes. It had to move all the files in your WinXP partition. It shouldn't cause a hal.dll error anymore. Please let us know if there is a problem. Brian At least a dozen startup and restarts, all is ok. I think you hit the nail on the head. I have 3 desktops and 1 laptop running most of the time, all are running WinXP this one was the only one with more than 1 partition also the one with the Hal.dll problem. Thanks again, will let you know if it shows up again. Sam
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#15
August 8th 10, 03:45 AM
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Hal.dll trouble
On 8/7/2010 9:43 PM, Sam wrote:
"Brian wrote in message nd.com... wrote in message ... I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files. Yes. It had to move all the files in your WinXP partition. It shouldn't cause a hal.dll error anymore. Please let us know if there is a problem. Brian At least a dozen startup and restarts, all is ok. I think you hit the nail on the head. I have 3 desktops and 1 laptop running most of the time, all are running WinXP this one was the only one with more than 1 partition also the one with the Hal.dll problem. Thanks again, will let you know if it shows up again. Sam This HAL is 9 years too late. See if you can figure out why... Ben Myers
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#16
August 8th 10, 02:00 PM
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Hal.dll trouble
"Ben Myers" wrote in message ... On 8/7/2010 9:43 PM, Sam wrote: "Brian wrote in message nd.com... wrote in message ... I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files. Yes. It had to move all the files in your WinXP partition. It shouldn't cause a hal.dll error anymore. Please let us know if there is a problem. Brian At least a dozen startup and restarts, all is ok. I think you hit the nail on the head. I have 3 desktops and 1 laptop running most of the time, all are running WinXP this one was the only one with more than 1 partition also the one with the Hal.dll problem. Thanks again, will let you know if it shows up again. Sam This HAL is 9 years too late. See if you can figure out why... Ben Myers Don't play games, don't do riddles. Thanks Sam
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#17
August 10th 10, 06:55 AM
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Hal.dll trouble
"Sam" wrote in message ... , will let you know if it shows up again. Please do. It is weird.
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