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me_me_me
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_ 		27. September 2007 @ 02:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ive been through many posts and have only fond 1 post that was close to what i need help with...
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/530792
My problem is the boot.ini has corrupted and hal.dll is missing or corrupted. Ive started windows recovery with the install cd and have tried...

-replacing hal.dll
-deleting the boot.ini and reinstalling it
-chkdsk /r on all of my drives all completes sucessfuly
-reinstalling windows (several times)
-resetting the bois to default settings

...and so far nothing has worked in fixing the boot.ini, every time i try to rebuild the boot.ini is says that it is missing or corrupted and to try chkdsk on my drives and i have. I did change it so that even if the boot.ini is corrupted it will move on to the bois and boot that way. Now for the last part of my problem. Even if windows has loaded it wont show any of my additional drives (none have windows loaded) it just says that their missing but in recovery, the bios and when the pc loads i can see them.
So what do i need to do, hopfuly something other than formatting.
BTW by hard drive is a SATA and needs a floppy disk to load the drivers so i can install windows...
Thanks.
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philraz
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_ 		30. September 2007 @ 18:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
dont know if this will help but check it out

http://shanegfowler.wordpress.com/2007/0...file-quick-fix/

but make sure you get a backup of any data you need to keep first
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_ 		30. September 2007 @ 18:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
moved to correct forum
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me_me_me
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_ 		30. September 2007 @ 22:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Today I gave up on my computer and reformatted. Dont care that i lost everything but now when I try and install windows it blue screens during installation (just after I put in my details and time zone). Any ideas as to what is going on there?
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