It's an XP system. We got into it by using a 98 disk. We tried the recommended windows XP boot disk and it gave an error. Couldn't find hal.dll. We copied a new hal.dll and still the same error. I laugh when he says you can't copy a file. He's thinking as in a windows mind thought. So he's doing the copy method. I thought dd or the programs below might work. I found this I'm going to try. http://www.sysresccd.org/
Tim On Friday 24 September 2004 11:36 pm, you wrote: > Winders 98 is an easy fix. Boot the 98 CD, start computer with > CDROM support, get to a prompt. Hit C:, type 'dir' and see if > all the Windoze stuff is there. Then copy the 98 cab files to > the HD. From C:\ type md WIN98, cd win98, copy E(F,G, > whatever):\win98, setup /is , pull the CD and watch it fix > itself. Then have him try Yoper. It's small, simple, and a very > friendly user base. He may also be interested in Lycoris. Got a > customer who was sick enough of Winblows to go it his own route > and has been enjoying it. Loves to overhear people in the store > complain about virii and adware/spyware. > > --- Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a friend who's on and off again with Linux. He has a > > dual boot > > system. He's tried Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo. He > > likes > > Mandrake. Well He installed Red Hat Fedora Core 2 and tried > > to get back into > > windows and it wouldn't allow him to. Well normally you would > > run a dos > > fdisk /mbr but it still wouldn't boot. One of his files must > > have been > > corrupted. Well he used fixmbr and I think he really messed > > it up. We have > > since then made a windows boot disk. And it say it needs a > > hal.dll which is > > there. He is thinking it's Linux that messed up his system. > > I don't think > > so. I think he messed it up when he ran fixmbr. The damage > > is done he wants > > to retrieve the files, which we can see from a windows 98 > > bootable disk. So > > he is going to copy the 35 Gig to a 40 Gig and then try > > rebooting. Since we > > think it's a MBR problem now. > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
