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I have attempted the repair option multiple time and it fails every time. I can get to that option from the boot disk and sometimes from the bad drive, but it always fails, so that function is not resolving it, hence my posting here. I had been down that road yesterday and the day before.
As noted, I have also attempted to repair the boot sector with the bootsect command with no joy.

Well, I was not able to open the image file to get the hal.dll, so I am doing a restore of the 4/1 image to the new drive.
After that is completed, I will copy over the hal.dll to the old drive and see if I can boot from it. If not, I may attempt to do an image restore to the old drive just to see if that works.
The first image restore is running now, so it will be a while until I cna see where I am with it./
Still odd about the almost boot and then shut down. Is there any way to capture what is going on in the boot process on the “bad” drive so that we can figure that issue out? It is certainly past the hal.dll issue there so something else is corrupt.

Yes, I can get the the F8 menu, but I get the same hal.dll failure with any of the selections there.

Thanks for the responses. Pretty much what I was going to do.
The system image is the Windows system image. I’ll see if I can get the hal.dll and give that a shot. Otherwise I will just attempt to restore the image.
I have a number of backups, the issue isn’t the data, it’s the pain of reinstalling all of the programs and the settings again.
I am still curious about the startup symptom, where the “glowing balls” are just starting, the red ball is tiny and then the computer restarts.
I wonder what is actually happening at that point to kill the boot process and force a restart.

While this is a bit of a kludge, you could set a static address that is outside of the range of the DHCP the router is using.
I had a system that had similar behavior and after a few shots at it, just set a static address and it works fine.
The only thing he will need to remember is that he will have to go back to DHCP in the network settings if he wants to use the computer on a different network.

Steve,
As I was messing around with it, I may have solved it with a similar formula.
In the “receiving” cell, the formula =’sheet 1′!$A$1 does work. I’m not sure what the difference is with teh $, can you explain that so I understand what I did?
Thanks,
Jeff

Steve,
There are no formulas involved.
I have information that gets entered into various cells on one sheet, then the same information has to be copied into different cells on the other sheets.
What happens is that the sheets all have similar names (XYZ Test, XYZ Setup) for this project.
The next project is ABC, so there is ABC Test and ABC Setup, all in a folder called ABC.
Unless I did something wrong, when I had the two sheets in the same workbook, Excel asked for the name of the workbook to reference when I used =sheet1!a1. There will be about 15 or so references like this throughout the second and possibly third sheet.
It will be very difficult to keep providing the correct name and that will take more time than just doing the copy and paste I do now.
I want the reference to just be to the cell in sheet 1 without needing a file name.
Is that clearer?