[NCLUG] Mandrake kills MS

[jbass at dmsd.com]

Hi elizabeth,

Can I assume that you installed the machine to dual boot from
Lilo, and that the error below is from the NT boot sequence?

It's unlikely that Lilo modified the windows, but it is possible
there was some filesystem corruption from a crash or improper
shutdown of windows (or linux if that partition was mounted).

You can re-install windows if necessary to recover a bootable
system on that partition, but you will need to make a linux
boot disk first so you can re-install lilo after cleaning up
the windows partition.

you might mount the windows partition under linux, and investigate
about the hal.dll .... do a find to see if it's still on the
disk some place, or bring it in via floppy from another machine
with the same release and service pack level.

John

Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet <ADDRESS_REMOVED_BY_REQUEST> writes:
> and now WIndows won't load!  I think Mandrake's install of 10.0
> overwrote on the windows partition to perhaps install lilo?
> 
> Now i get:
> "File is missing or corrupt
> <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
> 
> 
> I tried to boot from the CD, but (and i noticed this with
> the Mandrake cd 1 install disk too),
> my system doesn't seem to recognize a boot cd disk anymore!
> (and of course I don't make floppy boot disks, blech)
> 
> SO NOW can someone help me figure this one out.
> Anyone explain what happened? 
> What would then happen if i try to reinstall Windows XP?
> and how do i make a windows xp boot disk from linux?