Barganman04
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Hello,
I am looking for some help or advice if anyone can lend it.
My computer:
4 year old Inspiron 6000
2gb ram
Windows Xp Professional
160gb Seagate HDD
About a year ago my computer was afflicted with the white blinking underscore.
I re-installed a fresh copy of windows, all my drivers and lost all my files. When this past week the white blinking underscore showed up again I was determined to not fix it if possible.
Here is what I did:
I entered the recovery console and entered the following string of commands.
First I ran ChkDsk and at least 1 error was found.
then I ran
C:>Attrib -h C:boot.ini
C:>Attrib -s C:boot.ini
C:>Attrib -r C:boot.ini
C:>del boot.ini
C:>BOOTCFG /rebuild
I titles it Windows XP Professional
Under options I put /fastdetect
C:>Chkdsk r/f/
C:>FixBoot
I tried this three times thinking I screwed up each of the first two....no avail
Now my computer shows 3 different windows versions and each one when selected shows the error message for missing hal.dll
How can I repair this and revert to having only 1 version of windows??
Any advice is helpful.
Point for consideration...my original windows XP Cd has been lost so I have been using a .iso I burned for the repair console.
I am looking for some help or advice if anyone can lend it.
My computer:
4 year old Inspiron 6000
2gb ram
Windows Xp Professional
160gb Seagate HDD
About a year ago my computer was afflicted with the white blinking underscore.
I re-installed a fresh copy of windows, all my drivers and lost all my files. When this past week the white blinking underscore showed up again I was determined to not fix it if possible.
Here is what I did:
I entered the recovery console and entered the following string of commands.
First I ran ChkDsk and at least 1 error was found.
then I ran
C:>Attrib -h C:boot.ini
C:>Attrib -s C:boot.ini
C:>Attrib -r C:boot.ini
C:>del boot.ini
C:>BOOTCFG /rebuild
I titles it Windows XP Professional
Under options I put /fastdetect
C:>Chkdsk r/f/
C:>FixBoot
I tried this three times thinking I screwed up each of the first two....no avail
Now my computer shows 3 different windows versions and each one when selected shows the error message for missing hal.dll
How can I repair this and revert to having only 1 version of windows??
Any advice is helpful.
Point for consideration...my original windows XP Cd has been lost so I have been using a .iso I burned for the repair console.