My PC wouldn't boot up this morning it said something about my Windows root\system32\hal.dll missing or was corrupt. To cut a long stroy short I ended up loading XP again and this time it has swaped my C: D: partition drives around and I can see the old windows version on D: I copied and pasted the new hal.dll over to the Windows root\system32\hal.dll on my D: and replaced the old one. My next question is can I drop drag the old windows over the new one "OR" can I swap the drives back around just so I don't have to reinstall everything again.

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Doe's it give you a choice at start up of 2 different operating systems to boot to?

No it doesn't it just boots up and into the new xp version on C: It's so annoying I can see all my old emails and adresses are still there but I'm having trouble working out how to merge all the old files over to the new settup.

I can see all my old emails and adresses are still there What do you mean by see, do you use Outlook Express and when you open it is your emails still in it?

No when I look at the Dir on my C: drive there is a dir called email when I click that there is another Dir called outlook express and inside it it has a number of *.dbx files there. But when I open outlook express no they don't show up there although I would like to get them there I just haven't worked out how to import them into the new setup.

Just right click & Copy, then Paste where you want them.