Also, the old Hard drive was removed from a system I got rid of ... its just the fact it had a ton of family pictures on it and my wife wanted them, so I thought it would be easy enough to just install it as slave on my system and save the files to CD. Alas, when the system booted, it for whatever reason saw that drive with the OS and did something to the config or something. it actually attempted to load the 98 that was on it, but asked for a system CD. I hit exit and when the reboot came about the missing/corrupted hal.dll error came up.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854