At 05:13 PM 05/10/2012, DSinc wrote:
Can I copy a different boot.ini file into/over what appears to be a
bad/dorked boot.ini file
and get away clean? The OS is WinXPpro SP3.
Yes. Or you could use bootcfg /rebuild from the recovery console.
Bottom Choice: <hy-lited> Windows (default)
This choice boots to another Black Screen: "Windows could not start
because the following file is missing
or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a
copy of the above file."
Hmmm. Sounds like rebuilding the boot.ini will fix that.
T