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Dell Inspiron 6000

Asked by swaff in Windows XP Operating System, PC Laptops

Tags: dell, Windows XP, rebuild

I have had a few issues with this system and decided, after speaking with Dell product support to rebuild windows. It started about a week ago, when i booted the computer and it came back with a Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:Windows\System32\Hal.dll. Upon closer inspection, it was an invalid boot.ini file. I went to the location to look up the error http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330184, and followed the instructions there. The system did not have any boot INI file so, I did a CHKDSK /R and after the repair, I was able to rebuild the INI file. The system worked, for 1 day and the error came back. The system shutdown and the message was present again. I was not so lucky the 2nd time with the rebuild. It did rebuild, but was short lived. When it first happened, I suspected Hardware, but after speaking with Dell Technical support, I was told it is a Windows XP problem and that it needed to be reloaded!

I decided to rebuild windows from scratch, but do not have the DELL o/s rebuild disk. I do have a copy of MS Windows XP home edition. I purchased a new disk, 320gb, installed it and booted windows XP. It gets me to the point where it says, examining system devices and then the screen goes blank and does not get me to the LOAD windows XP screen. I am at a loss to understand why I cannot rebuild from my CD. I had downloaded a Release candidate from MS for windows 7, and I was able to boot that, so I am not experiencing a problem with XP. Also, I was able to LOAD windows 7 on this system as well. Problem with that is the Release Candidate expires on June 1st of next year and I want something a little more permanent.  So, XP is the way to go. I also borrowed a friends XP pro boot disk, but have had the same issues.

So, can anyone here explain why I cannot load Windows XP onto this machine on a fresh disk, or can they possibly fix the invalid Boot.ini error that I continuously get?

thanks

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