HAL.DLL missing or corrupt message at boot
From: Charlie (noreply_at_noreply)
Date: 07/31/03
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:57:02 -0700
Thnx Jonnin,
It turns out that I have a larger problem; when I
scandisked the drive on another machine (as a slave) the
partition failed the CRC, and the Windows dir failed to
appear in explorer, so it's FDISK time, and a clean
install anyway.
Thnx for responding all the same.
Regards,
Charlie
>-----Original Message-----
>havent tried with xp, but you should be able to repair
by
>booting from the xp install cd and following the repair
>options. beware oem "refresh" disks that wipe the hard
>disk and restore to your original setup, these cds will
>have the manufacturer logo on the xp disk (compact does
>this for example)
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am getting the following error when I try to start my
>>machine. It shut down abruptly, and now refuses to
start.
>>
>>=== Error Message ===
>>Windows could not start because the following file is
>>missing or corrupt.
>>Windows root\system32\hal.dll.
>>Please re-install a copy of the above file.
>>=== Error Message ===
>>
>>I have a copy of the HAL.DLL file on a floppy disk, but
>>when I get the Recovery console it will not let me get
>>into the windows or systems32 folders to replace the
file.
>>
>>I tried the 'LOGON' command within the console and that
>>too failed to find a valid windows environment. How,
>>other than a reinstall do I resolve this problem.
>>
>>I recently applied the SP1 (or was it SP1a???) update
and
>>now when I try to use the Windows XP CD it is asking
for
>>the SP1 disk, I don't have this as I downloaded the SP
>>from Microsoft.
>>
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>>Thank you
>>Charlie
>>
>>
>>
>>.
>>
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