Charlie
Sat Dec 30 13:59:12 CST 2006
I like naming my partitions ahead of time. Makes it a lot easier to keep
track of which is which when Vista starts swapping things around.
--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> When in Vista, check Disk Management and confirm which system is your
> System partition. Please list by partition number, left to right, which
> OS is on each partition and which is the System. Making sure you see
> system and hidden files, on which partition is the Boot folder, the ntldr
> ntdetect.com and boot.ini When you get back we will determine the next
> steps to get you going. Your hal.dll file is not missing, just
> misdirected.
> Also you can download VistaBootPro
http://www.vistabootpro.org/ and
> install it on Vista as we may need it in the next step.
>
> "Murray" <Murray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:29B5A1CD-F0FB-48A8-96C7-CDE15E49A422@microsoft.com...
>> Bought AMD Athlon 64 system with XP Media Center installed ( X86
>> version).
>> Setup new partition and intsalled Vista X64. IT installed fine and
>> noticed
>> other MS operating system. When I try to boot the XP x86 Media Center I
>> get
>> a missing file or corrupted file -- <windows root>\system32\hal.dll
>>
>> Any suggestions ? -- How to get X64 Vista to boot manage X86 XP Media
>> Center? Can i just replace hal.dll from Media Center and place in Vista
>> system32 directory?
>>
>> Murray
>