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It worked!! I can now boot from the boot.ini of the C: drive which is now the hd0 FYI the C: drive was the PhysicalDrive0 and the D: drive the PhysicalDrive1. And both screenshots were the same, but I managed to understand thanks to your detailed instructions I messed it up quite nice this time Thanks a lot for your help !!

Thanks anyway ! I've just seen that when I update the boot.ini from the System Properties->Advanced->Startup and Recovery, I actually update the boot.ini file in the D: drive !! If I modify the Bios and I forced it to boot on the C: drive by disabling the D: drive, I get the following error message: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press key I previously had a Windows XP installation on my EEE PC that was working fine, so I suppose I just messed it up when I deleted the partitions ! Is it worth going again through this process to fix it or do you think it can just keep living like that ? Guillaume.

I moved all those files to the D: drive. And now I have the boot menu showing up! The first two options (hd2,0) and (hd1,0) give errors. But when I choose the last one (hd1,0), it works fine and I can boot on Windows! So what does it mean? That it is not possible to boot from the C: drive?

Well, the first time I tried to install Windows XP, I deleted the partition on the original C: drive (4Go) and install Windows on it. In someway, it changed the original D: drive (16Go) to the C: drive, and the 4Go to the D: drive. It was quite odd having Windows on the D: drive so I installed Windows again, this time deleting both partitions and creating them again, so that the 4Go would again become the C: drive. I don't know if in some way this has affected something. I added the line to the boot.ini file, but it looks like it doesn't even access to this file... I got the error message straight away: Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem...

- I added the 2 lines to the boot.ini file but it didn't change anything because it is directly showing me the message. I don't get to see the bootable options. - In the first link, I didn't understand what to do. It said to modify the boot.ini file of the USB, but this one works fine already. I don't have the HAL.DLL or NTOSKRNL.EXE not found errors. - In the second link, my problem corresponds to the first error message. But the first solution is to edit the boot.ini file which I did. And the other one is to launch the recovery console, but I don't know if it works from a USB drive. If it is, I would need another one, as the one I have doesn't have anymore the Windows files on it and I need it to currently boot to Windows. - For your last point, I'm using rdisk(2) without the stick, but even with it, it doesn't work. In the EEE PC 901, there are a 4Go (C:) and a 16 SSD (D:) drives as well as a removable SD card. - On the command line, it gives me: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x06 ls grldr menu.lst defaut winsetup.lst windefault boot.ini ntldr ntdetect.com $win_nt$.ls win51 win51ip win51ip. Looks like it is the USB drive. When I try root (hd1,0), I got access to my personal files on the 16Go SSD drive (D:). And this one is the C: drive where Windows is installed. We can see the Windows directory: root (hd2,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x0B ls pagefile.sys windows Documents\ and Settings boot.ini ntldr ntdetect.com boot.001 Progam\ Files config.sys autoexec.bat io.sys msdos.sys Recycled - I would sometimes get the following message, I suppose when I choose to boot on the wrong (right?) SSD drive. Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll Please re-install a copy of the above file. - When I start from the USB, I have to choose this option to launch Windows: Second part of XP Professional setup from hd 2 part 1 So normally it should be hd 1 part 1 when we remove the USB. But I tried all the possible configuration in the boot.ini ((0,1),(1,1),(2,1)) and none of them worked.

Hi, I´ve just installed Windows XP NLite on my EEE PC 901 from my USB using WinSetupFromUSB. But when I try to boot without my USB, I´m getting the following error message: Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. ... I edited the boot.ini drive in all the possible ways, but it is still not working. At the end, checking with the Check All Boot Paths option of msconfig, it told me that the only correct option was this one: [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect But still no success. I looked at the command of Grub4dos and it said the following: grub>root ( Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 hd2 rd grub>find /windows/system32/$winnt$.inf (hd2,0) Could you please help me. I don´t know what to do now to make it works. Thanks. Guillaume.