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thank you! I tried everything down to the repair install. That and the BartPE cd will be this evenings entertainment. I am still hopeful! Or naive! :)

All I want out of this are my pictures. If i then have to reinstall everything, i can live with that! I have tried to repair the MBR, and bootcfg /rebuild and many more things, but it always comes back to 'missing hal.dll file'. I also created a boot floppy disk with the Ntldr and...

I have found the XP home edition OS cd. is that what i need?

I finally had some time to try and work with this and got into safe mode. I get errors: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiition(2)\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe,hal.dll,KDCOM.dll, Boot.VID.dll, config]system, config\system log. I get these in any Safe Mode. I also tried last known good config and...

I am out of town, so don't have access to my cd's. I have a friend bringing hers tomorrow, so will try the repair from her XP OX CD. Thank you!

Sorry, it isn't F8, it is F2, which is the BIOS setup utility. F10 is the boot device selection. Which gives me 4M-GCR, 3M-Maxtor & IBA GE Slot 0208. I can't find the Recovery cd, so it will be tonight before i can make one.

I can get to F8, but there is no safe mode option. I am running XP. I will try the repair install, as I really want to keep my data. Actually only pictures, but that is what i was working on when this all happened, so no backup.

My pc was running slow and the memory usage was unusually high, so I rebooted the pc. It runs thru the Dell screen, and the Norton GO BACK, then boots to a black screen. I ran the DELL diagnostic cd on the pc with no errors. I have taken the hard drive out and put it in another pc with...