sn0wl Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command There's an easy fix for "Missing HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," and several other fatal startup errors. For example, if you already have some knowledge of the commands involved, many "Missing or corrupt HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." problems can be fixed with these five shortcut steps: Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console Run "Attrib -H -R -S" on the C:\Boot.ini file Delete the C:\Boot.ini file Run "Bootcfg /Rebuild" Run Fixboot It really can be as simple as that! Read the rest of the article here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Handy trick, if it works! Thanks! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 I wish I had known about this before I pulled the drive to reformat it on another laptop. I broke two of the pins upon hard disc removal. ....Brand new Seagate hard drive. Thanks for this valuable information. I should have researched the problem more thoroughly before my desparate move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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