[dfeasy09]

After booting xp it said hal.dll was missing
So I downloaded the dll file and replaced the original one that was in sys32 with it.
And then added boot.ini to the disk.

Then I booted the xp system only to find a dark screen, nothing else.
Is it the wrong placing of boot.ini file , the wrong text of boot.ini or the dll file?

text goes as follows
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

M'aidez someone. Thanks!

[P]

Hi. I'm afraid that you have come to the wrong place for your question. This is a Mac forum, and your question is about details of the Windows XP boot process. You would be better served by going to a Windows forum.

I'm locking this to see if we can get one of those self-reporting spams - they seem to happen when threads are locked.