Likely a screwup with drive letters.

Post #115,175 by hnick 8/24/03 1:46:14 PM Reply	Likely a screwup with drive letters. Try using PartitionMagic or System Commander or similar to hide the other partitions while the XP driver boots. Just a guess, but I've seen similar before. Hugh
Post #115,180 by orion 8/24/03 2:18:09 PM Reply	Any free or open source alternatives? I don't have any current version of those. I have partition manager, but an older copy that may not work with larger drives. I'll give it a try and see if it works. I'm guessing that getting a Linux boot disk with CFDISK on it might work as well, does the standard Red Hat install disk have CFDISK on it? Or is it an additional download? *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #115,182 by orion 8/24/03 2:34:44 PM Reply	Partition Magic 3.0 couldn't read the drive It had partition error 120. I think 8.0 is the latest version of PM. I'll try downloading the latest Data Lifeguard Tools from WD. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #115,184 by deSitter 8/24/03 3:08:46 PM Reply	Re: Likely a screwup with drive letters. Not in this case, I don't think. I searched the system32 folder when this happened to me with Linux, and the DLL was really gone (or just not there). I ran the XP recovery w/repair disk and it got fixed. Note to all: make a repair disk. It seemed to me that this was somehow related to replacing the boot sector code for XP - perhaps on boot, this DLL is created/moved on the fly. Dual boot of XP and anything else is a major pain. What I did was reinstall XP on FAT32 from a CD, call Microsoft, and activate over the phone. It wasn't as if I didn't warn Norm about this. -drl
Post #115,198 by orion 8/24/03 4:21:22 PM Reply	Well let me see how it goes I think the partitions got moved around somewhat. Norton Systemworks reports problems with extended partitions on drive 1, but cannot fix them. I suspect this may be part of the problem. I just need something that can fix the partition, or delete it so I can recreate it and start over again. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #115,196 by orion 8/24/03 4:19:20 PM Reply	Could very well be that I changed the partition used in boot.ini and it gave the same result. I guess the first thing it tries to load is hal.dll? I'll keep trying partitions until I find one that works. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*

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