XP Home installation has started failing on boot (after POST) with flashing
cursor before the select OS screen (3 times now) and I have only managed to
fix it by doing a complete restore from a Ghost 10 image. I do not like to
resort to a sledgehammer like this so has anyone any other ideas for a more
elegant solution?! This is what I have tried so far with no luck:
Restoring the boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect. files
Restoring the hall.dll file.
Rewriting MBR from recovery console.
Restoring the windows directory.
BTW I have tried a boot disk - fails with a message rather than just a
cursor - the famous missing... hal.dll message.
I can' t help feeling that I am missing something! Any thoughts appreciated.