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From: Sharon on 28 Feb 2006 12:47 ok - Doing the repair install, moving along fine until it asks for my product key. However When I enter it in, checking carefully a number of times, I get the CD key you entered is not valid. I have XPproSP1 that I got with VPC6 and am using that key, but now I'm stuck. Any ideas? Sharon "Ken Schaefer" wrote: > At this point it might just be easier to do a repair install. You can do > that from the Windows XP CD. Skip past the recovery console option, and when > it comes to setup you can choose to either install a new copy of Windows, or > repair an existing copy. Choose to repair your existing copy. > > Cheers > Ken > >
From: John Schneider on 28 Feb 2006 12:49 I got around this problem by copying over a HAL.DLL from another XP VM. Here was the procedure I used. 1) Created a new clean XP Pro VM, loaded SP2 and all current updates. 2) Added this new vhd as a secondary drive in another VM (happened to be XP Home) 3) Added the problem vhd as a third drive in the XP Home VM 4) Booted the XP Home VM 5) On drive #3 (the problem vhd), renamed hal.dll to hal.dll.sav, and ntoskrnl.exe to ntoskrnl.exe.sav 6) Copied hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe from drive 2 to drive 3. 7) Verified that the boot.ini files were the same on drive 3 as on drive 2. 8) Closed the XP Home VM. 9) Booted the old XP Pro VM and did not get the HAL error. Now I'm having a problem with the BSOD x7B, but I'm sure that's just a device driver issue. Hoping to nail that one down tonight, but the steps above should take care of the HAL.DLL issue. Good Luck, John "Sharon" wrote: > I'm running VPC 7 and after no problems or new installs yesterday, but today > I get this message when I start it up: > 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. > > I can't seem to get it to boot from cd or in safe-mode any suggestions?
From: Steve Jain on 28 Feb 2006 14:42
Keep in mind that in VPC7, which is what version Sharon is using has ACPI disabled by default. Where VPC2004 does not. This could account for HAL.DLL problems. On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:49:27 -0800, "John Schneider" <johnmsch(a)newsgroups.nospam> wrote: >I got around this problem by copying over a HAL.DLL from another XP VM. Here >was the procedure I used. >1) Created a new clean XP Pro VM, loaded SP2 and all current updates. >2) Added this new vhd as a secondary drive in another VM (happened to be XP >Home) >3) Added the problem vhd as a third drive in the XP Home VM >4) Booted the XP Home VM >5) On drive #3 (the problem vhd), renamed hal.dll to hal.dll.sav, and >ntoskrnl.exe to ntoskrnl.exe.sav >6) Copied hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe from drive 2 to drive 3. >7) Verified that the boot.ini files were the same on drive 3 as on drive 2. >8) Closed the XP Home VM. >9) Booted the old XP Pro VM and did not get the HAL error. > >Now I'm having a problem with the BSOD x7B, but I'm sure that's just a >device driver issue. Hoping to nail that one down tonight, but the steps >above should take care of the HAL.DLL issue. > >Good Luck, >John > > > >"Sharon" wrote: > >> I'm running VPC 7 and after no problems or new installs yesterday, but today >> I get this message when I start it up: >> 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. >> >> I can't seem to get it to boot from cd or in safe-mode any suggestions? -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. I am not am employee of Microsoft." |