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Posted: **Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:30 am**

I recently installed AIS to boot 2 hard drives Primary master Win XP &
Sec master Win ME.Select XP it boots fine,select ME & message said
hal.dll & ntoskrnl.exe files missing from Windows\system32 so I down
loaded them & installed in System32 OK,now when I select ME drive to
boot I get message "Windows could not start because of software error,
load needed Dlls for kernel".The ME hard drives boots OK on its own.
Any thoughts please?Cheers Eddie.

Posted: **Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:14 am**

Windows ME (and all other Windows 95 style systems) must be the primary master when using Microsoft's boot manager. The Hal.dll is for NT style operating systems only. I suggest you swap the drives and copy the boot files to the ME disk. You may need to make the ME drive recognise the boot menu by starting a Windows XP installation as shown here:

http://www.aiscl.co.uk/dual_boot_system.htm

Please let me know if the web-page helps, if not let us know where there is a problem and I will get it updated.

Here is a boot menu for ME on disk 0 and XP on disk 1, the ME must be on a primary, active drive. Please also note that disk's number from 0 and partition's number from 1.

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&#91;boot loader&#93;
Timeout=30
Default=multi&#40;0&#41;disk&#40;0&#41;rdisk&#40;1&#41;partition&#40;1&#41;\WINDOWS
&#91;operating systems&#93;
c&#58;\="Microsoft Windows ME" 
multi&#40;0&#41;disk&#40;0&#41;rdisk&#40;1&#41;partition&#40;1&#41;\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /FASTDETECT

Barry

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