Peter Will wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I followed a lot of disjointed info on the Microsoft
help site and did the following. I have two hard drives, a Seagate 40 (C
and a WD 20 (D. I partitioned the 40 to 31 (partition 1) and 9 (partition
2). Microsoft was imperative about the order for loading so I set up Me
first on partition 2. At that point it would boot into Me without problem.
I then installed XP on partition 1. I then had to modify boot.ini to list
the send version (Me). The operating systems listing looks like this
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft
Windows XP Home Edition"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft
Windows Millennium Edition"
When I boot I have the list of choices for both of those. It will boot
without problem into XP but when I select the Me it will not boot but comes
up with the "hal.dll" error. I have followed Microsoft's Knowledge Base
suggestions and booted from the XP CD and used 'bootcfg'. Scan and list
does not find the Me installation. The only way I have found to get the
entry into the boot.ini is to enter it manually. That kind of states the
problem.



It sounds like, during the WinXP installation, you may have formatted
and possibly converted "partition 1" to NTFS. This would have
immediately rendered the WinME installation unbootable. IT's essential
system files were still located on "partition 1."

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