Dual Boot Problem

Question

Using the windows boot loader I have successfully dual booted Drive C (Win XP) on disk 1 and Drive G (Win XP) on disk 2. I want to test booting to a Win XP OS installed on a 2nd partition of disk 1. After creating the new primary partition on disk 1 I used an Acronis clone image of Drive G and restored it to the new 2nd partition now called Drive D. I have edited the boot.ini file as shown below. Upon re-boot when I select the option to boot to Drive D I get the error message that it can't boot because the Windows Root/Windows/System32/hal.dll file is either missing or corrupt. Why? How can I correct it? Copying hal.dll from Drive C doesn't help. [boot loader] ;timeout=3 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS timeout=3 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS='Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition' /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS='Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition D' /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS='G Drive Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition' /fastdetect /noexecute=optin

mombodog · Answer

Shouldn't the disk 0 be partition 1 and 2?  not 2 and 3 since these are on a different drive.   This missing or corrupt hal.dll can mean the drive cannot be found or read also. I suspect it cannot find the partition 3. since there are only 2 on that drive.

oldtraveler · Answer

Thanks for the tip. Partition 1 is where it was. Works now.

mombodog · Answer

Sweet!  I got lucky on that one I guess.   'Even a pig gets an acorn every once in a while'  :smileyvery-happy:

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