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"Nick Porcino" wrote:
> It gets worse!
>
> Now the system refuses to start up at all, saying that it can't find a
> system description file. Joy. The system is offering to let me install a new
> OS, which it wants to do on a clean partition. Not good.
>
>
> "J Maddy" wrote:
>
> > Nick,
> > I hope you can find the answer to this. I have the same problem but
> > Microsoft support cannot understand what the problem is. I have been to the
> > wall with those people. If you can find the answer, let me know. This problem
> > exists on Windows Media Center on my machine. therefore, it is a problem on
> > many computers. There seems to be some relation to a file called HAL.dll that
> > actually causes the failures. I'm lost on how to fix. Maybe someone else will
> > see this and help both of us.
> >
> >
> > "Nick Porcino" wrote:
> >
> > > I can't install about 20 updates to Windows 2000 Professional due to an
> > > error, 0x8007F00B.
> > >
> > > The error appears to mean "Could not locate entry for HAL.DLL in SETUP.LOG
> > > to determine type of HAL to update."
> > >
> > > I don't have a clue how to resolve this issue.
> It gets worse!
>
> Now the system refuses to start up at all, saying that it can't find a
> system description file. Joy. The system is offering to let me install a new
> OS, which it wants to do on a clean partition. Not good.
>
>
> "J Maddy" wrote:
>
> > Nick,
> > I hope you can find the answer to this. I have the same problem but
> > Microsoft support cannot understand what the problem is. I have been to the
> > wall with those people. If you can find the answer, let me know. This problem
> > exists on Windows Media Center on my machine. therefore, it is a problem on
> > many computers. There seems to be some relation to a file called HAL.dll that
> > actually causes the failures. I'm lost on how to fix. Maybe someone else will
> > see this and help both of us.
> >
> >
> > "Nick Porcino" wrote:
> >
> > > I can't install about 20 updates to Windows 2000 Professional due to an
> > > error, 0x8007F00B.
> > >
> > > The error appears to mean "Could not locate entry for HAL.DLL in SETUP.LOG
> > > to determine type of HAL to update."
> > >
> > > I don't have a clue how to resolve this issue.