ok some-one must be able to help me
leopard was running flawlessly before i did this but as an idiot i tried to dual boot it with windows xp. i did run the boot camp assistant but that wasn't much help. I also had paralells installed on the mac which worked great.
here's what happens
i have a windows XP pro disc in my mac. I boot up the mac it does the boot up sound and comes up with
Press any key to boot from CD...if i leave that it goes to "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system\hal.dll"
Please re-install a copy of the above file
so i can't do anything from there except turn my mac off and on again. So i do that and then i press any key and try to install windows xp. it does its thing which takes a while and then it asks where i want to install windows. i try to install it on a 12 gig partition. I format it as an NTFS and that works fine. and then it copys all the necessary files. takes about 5-10 minutes. it gets to 100%, restarts the computer and does the exact same thing again.
please help
leopard was running flawlessly before i did this but as an idiot i tried to dual boot it with windows xp. i did run the boot camp assistant but that wasn't much help. I also had paralells installed on the mac which worked great.
here's what happens
i have a windows XP pro disc in my mac. I boot up the mac it does the boot up sound and comes up with
Press any key to boot from CD...if i leave that it goes to "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system\hal.dll"
Please re-install a copy of the above file
so i can't do anything from there except turn my mac off and on again. So i do that and then i press any key and try to install windows xp. it does its thing which takes a while and then it asks where i want to install windows. i try to install it on a 12 gig partition. I format it as an NTFS and that works fine. and then it copys all the necessary files. takes about 5-10 minutes. it gets to 100%, restarts the computer and does the exact same thing again.
please help