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ie8 deletes boot.ini

  • 06-08-2009 6:34am
    #1
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭


    installed internet explorer 8 on an xp sp3 dell pc, when the owner rebooted it the next day it reported that hal.dll was missing


    booted into xp recovery console with an xp cp,
    ran
    chkdsk /p
    fixboot
    fixmbr

    same problem
    ran bootcfg /rebuild

    pc booted fine but when i went into the c drive boot.ini was not there ( xp set to show hidden files)
    rebooted and got the hal.dll error again

    i googled boot.ini keeps disappearing and found it was a problem with ie 8
    so i booted into recovery console again (xp cd repair option)

    ran bootcfg /rebuild
    booted into xp, unistalled ie8

    rebooted into xp cd, ran bootcfg /rebuild again
    and booted into xp, but this time it didn't delete boot.ini and i could reboot as much as i liked


    so IE8 deletes boot.ini :eek:


Comments

  • #2
    Martyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Martyr


    i'm using IE8 and never experienced this problem but i did read about it alright..pretty embarassing for MS


  • #3
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    Microsoft's response to this issues to a Gold support customs was:
    MS wrote:

    It's a known issues....
    mukki wrote: »
    installed interenet explorerer 8 on an xp sp3 dell pc, when the owner rebooted it the next day it reported that hal.dll was missing


    booted into xp recovery console with a xp cp,
    and ran
    chkdsk /p
    fixboot
    fixmbr

    same problem
    ran bootcfg /rebuild

    pc booted fine but when i went into the c drive boot.ini was not there (obviously had xp set to show hidden files
    rebooted and got the hal.dll error again

    i googled boot.ini keeps disappearing and found it was a problem with ie 8
    so i booted into recovery console again (xp cd repair option)

    ran bootcfg /rebuild
    booted into xp, unistalled ie8

    rebooted into xp cd, ran bootcfg /rebuild again
    and booted into xp, but this time it didn't delete boot.ini and i could reboot as much as i liked


    so IE8 deletes boot.ini :eek:


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