WinXP -->>SEQUENCE...
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L.S.;
HELP!!!
I've been cleaning the HD Window$ partition with the WinXP-Diskclean app.
Suddenly it stopped, gave a black screen asking for < windows-hoofdmap >\system32\hal.dll (< windows-basicfolder >?)
I'm only able to boot Mepis (lucky me) but I cannot mount the partition to re-install the .dll-file.
What to do next? Can I force mount the partition? If so, please a step-by-step description of what input to give in Terminal...
TIA, Ruud
Being very afraid to tell the wife! 
Ruud, Just tell her that
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Ruud,
Just tell her that it's her own fault. If she had not been so stubborn as to want windows, you would not have had to clean the disk in the first place. And come to think of it, why does she not maintain her own ruddy system herself...
Just tell her that...
Then duck....
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
If all else fails
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...you can do a non-destructive reinstall of Windows:
http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
You *will* have to download and install all the Windows Updates afterwards, but all the programs, settings, and data should remain intact.
THANK YOU!!!
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...you can do a non-destructive reinstall of Windows:http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
You *will* have to download and install all the Windows Updates afterwards, but all the programs, settings, and data should remain intact.
Hi unclemark;
WOW, this was a very useful link.
Comforting too, I can re-assure my wife that everything could be A-okay after this...
BTW will everything be lost, like mail etc?
Ruud
LOL
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Just tell her that...
Then duck...
Hi Carl;
Thanks for the WIZE ADVIZE
Ruud
No, as I said before,
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No, as I said before, everything will be retained.
I've used this procedure many times. The only thing you might lose would be some OS-specific system tweaks.
Glad I could be of help. I'm usually on the receiving end.
Robot?
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... but i had to tell my husband that i had blown up his motherboard last week...
HIS motherboard???
I presume he now stands smoking and gurgling in the bedroom corner?!?
BEEP-BEEP #*@ghghgh**##@@, game-over
Ruud
Me too!
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Glad I could be of help. I'm usually on the receiving end.
So am I, but then again, I'm only a designer, and who would need help with his wallpaper or iconset being crashed...
Ruud
Next time use CCleaner
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Glad I could be of help. I'm usually on the receiving end.
So am I, but then again, I'm only a designer, and who would need help with his wallpaper or iconset being crashed...
Ruud
If you ever take a notion to do another cleanup on the XP machine, I would recommend CCleaner. It does a good job (as good as Windows is gonna get, anyway), and I've never, ever heard of it causing anything like what you described.
Me neither...
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No, I didn't happen to me before too.
But "HE MOVES IN MY$TERIOU$ WAY$"...
And I'm not talking about the one above all!
Ruud
Double WINXP
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Okay, I now have my good old situation back, everything works...
...and more; After I choose WinXP in the GrUB-menu I get a black screen asking which of the two WinXP's I'd like to use?
The first one is the new install, and the second is my former, still usable WinXP partition,
I'd like to change the order in which they appear, so the old one before the new one.
Does anyone know how to do this in M$ Windows?
I know I can't swear in church, but it's the best place to ask advise...
Ruud
there's a C:\boot.ini text
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there's a C:\boot.ini text file, edit that one and reverse the order of the entries.
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Check out MEPIS Wiki: www.mepis.org/docs
C:\boot.ini
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there's a C:\boot.ini text file, edit that one and reverse the order of the entries.
Thanks man!
I found this microsoft support-item by "Google-ing" on C:\boot.ini you gave me,
and so the sequence is changed to my wife's preference...
So, thanks again! Very helpful.
Ruud
Win XP Is Cool!
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Yeah Ruud, Windows XP is pretty cool. I understand that it's the up-an-coming operating system that you can do almost anything with! Of course, whether it will do what you want it to do when you want it to do it is another thing...
Unclemark, thanks for the great tips! Sometimes we Linux folks get a little too far away from Windows to be helpful (is it possible to get "too far" away from Windows?).
Jon
No computer is magic, no operating system is magic, no website is magic. They all require human interaction, thought, and responsibility to work.
My pleasure
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Unclemark, thanks for the great tips! Sometimes we Linux folks get a little too far away from Windows to be helpful (is it possible to get "too far" away from Windows?).
You're welcome. Although I've been messing with Linux for a couple years, it's only been within the last few months that I've made a full and permanent migration of my personal computing environment to SimplyMEPIS.
I do a fair amount of tech work as a sideline, and knowing how to recover a corrupt Windows install is necessary -- and will be for some time into the future, until people wise up. In the meantime, I'm doing my best to convert people, one at a time.
If all goes well, I'll be getting my eighty-year-old dad set up with either SimplyMEPIS or PCLinuxOS this weekend. He's had an old 350MHz running W98 for about seven years on dialup, and decided he just didn't want to deal with the AV updates and malware scanning and all that nonsense. He was gonna give up computing altogether. Instead, I talked him into getting a basic DSL account (at almost the same as he was paying for dialup), and I'll be replacing his machine with a 1GHz box I've cobbled together. Whichever distro will pick up his printer and scanner will get installed.
Sumpthin' ain't kosher
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After I choose WinXP in the GrUB-menu I get a black screen asking which of the two WinXP's I'd like to use?
The first one is the new install, and the second is my former, still usable WinXP partition,
I'd like to change the order in which they appear, so the old one before the new one.
That should not be the result of following the directions on the link I provided.
You appear to have installed another instance of XP on a second partition (edumacated guess).
If that is the case, and you're absolutely sure which partition holds your good (old) install, then you should be able to format the partition holding the duplicate install and regain the drive space.
Hold the phone!
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Windows 2000/XP/2003 will also let you install a second instance of the operating system in the same Winnt/Windows folder. It will show up in boot.ini as Ruud describes (stupid M$, I know...).
Be Very Careful, heh, heh.
The Tramp
M$ Cr*p
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You appear to have installed another instance of XP on a second partition (edumacated guess).
YOUR GUESS IS RIGHT ON THE SPOT...
And with the same reg-key?!?!
If that is the case, and you're absolutely sure which partition holds your good (old) install, then you should be able to format the partition holding the duplicate install and regain the drive space.
I will not do that... I guess I'd be save just changing the bootsequence and make the boottime delay only two seconds,
my wife will be happy this way anyhow:
"It Should Just Work, This St*pid Machine"
my reply:
"it will honey, only not with M$"
Ruud
dear rudi
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i do not know how to do this, but i had to tell my husband that i had blown up his motherboard last week, and offer a forced upgrade to compensate