Windows XP (Home) Set-Up Failure

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This Microsoft Support Article describes the problem you're seeing:
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;227704

See http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1053579013 for more info
regarding fixing the ARC issue.

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"davygravy" <davygravy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14C91F28-B09D-4C34-94DD-12AD1D9248F4@microsoft.com...
>I have tried to install a new copy of Windows XP (Home) on a second hard
> drive in my existing PC. It was my intention to move all the copy all the
> data from the first hard drive (also running XP Home) and wipe it clean
> once
> everything was running OK on the new hard drive. However, the new
> installation has failed and I get an error message suggesting that hal.dll
> is
> either missing or is corrupt. Furthermore, my original installation no
> longer
> boots as I get the following error message when trying to boot to this
> hard
> disk...
> "Windows XP could not start because of the following ARC firmware boot
> configuration problem: Did not properly generate ARC name for HAL and
> system
> paths. Please check the Windows XP (TM) documentation about ARC
> configuration
> options and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
> Boot
> Failed.
>
> Any thoughts on how I fix this ?