I have an Asus eee pc....first I got the message that hal.ddl was corrupt or missing - I purchased an external cd rw drive to boot from the original cd...this works fine - the image is loaded from the cd - then I get a message stating to remove the cd from the drive and reboot...then I get the windows/system32/config/system file missing or corrupt message - it tells me to that I can recover by selecting r on the recovery menu - not seeing this option with the Asus netbook.

Any ideas?