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Bizarre boot sequence following power surge/failure
Here is what happened:
Win 7(32b) is on C:
Win XP is on E:
(Two physical drives, no extra partitions)
Was re-installing XP onto E: Somewhere along the way, there was a power fluctuation(lights flickered a couple of times, but computer continued to run), then the power completely died and everything shut down. I re-booted and started over. The process terminated with an error, so I decided to leave it alone and let the storm pass. When I tried to boot WIN 7 I got a boot error stating hal.dll was corrupt and needed to be replaced in the System32 directory.
Now here is where we are no longer in Kansas - if I use F12 during warm-up with the Dell Logo showing and ask to boot off of E: (the XP drive) WIN 7 runs without problems. I believe the boot instructions on C: are corrupted but the boot instructions on E: points to WIN 7 on the C: drive!
How can I move those boot instructions to the proper C: drive?