knoppix games help

[Porsche Design]

i did something to my desktop and now it wouldn't boot because it is missing the "hal.dll" file from c?:\winnt\system32

i tried using linux knoppix on a cd to install a hal.dll file from my laptop to the c drive but i can not open the drives. nor write files onto my hard disk.

are there other solutions?

i need a linux that can

open hard disks

open floppy drives or usb drive support

write files onto hard disk

[Lechio]

U are using Knoppix to recover yor windows instalation, that's OK.

But be more specific, in what format is yor windows partition , NTFS or FAT32 ?

If it is in NTFS you have to compile and install the drivers first (it's not a native

linux format), if it is Fat32 the icons for the partitions will be on desktop,

you right-click on the partition and choose change read-write mode to be able

to write to that partition

Also that error, "missing hal.dll" doesn't look very promissing.

[mitch00]

yeah.. and writing to NTFS drives isnt very safe, Reading it is ok, but unless anythings changed recently that im not aware of, writing to an NTFS drive with *nix could mess up your file system

[hornett]

How about this? http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/pressce...u_id=25&n_id=58

:)

This NTFS situation is really getting old now...

[mitch00]

oh, my bad then :p sorry

[hornett]

Sorry StreetGames! That wasn't aimed at you!

I just meant that it's annoying we still have to go to these lengths to get NTFS write support. ;)

ps. That's not to have a dig at the developers, either!

Edited June 1, 2005 by hornett

[kjordan2001]

Isn't hal.dll something you could restore by going into your Windows CD and running a restore or whatever?