Sp1 Problems

[akaladis Veteran]

Hello all,

After having problems dualbooting winXP with win98SE, I managed to do it! But when i tried to install XPSP1, everything would go fine until the reboot came. Then i would get the hal.dll error message. Some people told me to replace the patched sp1 atapi.sys located in \system32\drivers with the original one from the CD's drivers.cab. I did that, but the problem remained. I was also told that my drive migh be the cause, and i would have to set a jumper on the Cylinder Limiter in back of my Maxtor drive. I did this too, but this did not have any effect either. As a final action i gave up with XPSP1, and tried to boot from the CD-ROM and select to repair my installation (not system recovery console - i selected clean install) but that didnt have any effect either! What should i do now? Do you have any ideas? Some of my specs:

mobo: QDI Advance 10T-A (Award BIOS 6.00PG)

cpu: Intel Pentium III 733 MHz (5.5 x 133 MHz)

ram: 256 MB SDRAM PC133, 128 MB SDRAM PC133 (Total 384 MB)

hdd0: Seagate 10 GB 7200 rpm (UDMA66)

hdd1: Maxtor 60 GB 7200 rpm (UDMA100)

gfx: Asus V8440 DLX

sfx: Creative SB128 PCI

cd: Asus DVD E616 16x48x

cdr: Yamaha CRW2100E 16x12x40x

Thanks in advance...

[Raptor]

[Prasanth]

Edit the boot.ini located at the root drive

The contents of the boot.ini will look some thing like:

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Change multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS to multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(X)\WINDOWS

where X may vary depending on which partition Windows XP is installed

[akaladis Veteran]

No, the problem is not the boot.ini. XP are installed in the primary partition of the 2nd physical drive... there is one partition on each drive. Something else is wrong ;-(

Still dont know...

Raptor