i have tried a lot for 2 weeks, kindly tell what to do , i have 10 times made bootable usb, it even clears first stage but later shows hal.dll error.As given in many repliesand faq , i tried to give it rdisk0 , rdisk 1 , parition many options i tried but still same problem. Moreover at first stage, it do not read my laptop internal hdd, like c:drive which is formatted completely and other drive. so i do not know how it passed first stage , it should read the internal hdd ,only usb hdd is read, please reply where in which file to make change , not only in boot.ini so that in first stage, it reads internal HDD thanks in advance