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Kim Aku
I was having trouble installing and using some old hardware
on a dual boot computer with Win2K and WinXP on two
separate NTFS partitions. As I knew it would work OK with
Win98, I used Partition Magic 5 from a floppy (because it
doesn't know about Win2K), and created a fat partition just
big enough for the job, which I made active and installed
Win 98. So far so good.
But when I tried to be clever and install Boot Magic, I
couldn't boot either of the NTFS partitions. W2K says it
<Windir>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted, and XP
starts to boot and then halts the system with a fatal
error.
Eventually I found that if I use the PM floppy to unhide
the XP partition that BM hides I can boot either of the
NTFS systems normally, but then I need the floppy version
of PM to make the FAT W98 bootable - all a bit clumsy.
Any ideas?
on a dual boot computer with Win2K and WinXP on two
separate NTFS partitions. As I knew it would work OK with
Win98, I used Partition Magic 5 from a floppy (because it
doesn't know about Win2K), and created a fat partition just
big enough for the job, which I made active and installed
Win 98. So far so good.
But when I tried to be clever and install Boot Magic, I
couldn't boot either of the NTFS partitions. W2K says it
<Windir>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted, and XP
starts to boot and then halts the system with a fatal
error.
Eventually I found that if I use the PM floppy to unhide
the XP partition that BM hides I can boot either of the
NTFS systems normally, but then I need the floppy version
of PM to make the FAT W98 bootable - all a bit clumsy.
Any ideas?