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Corrupt file on xp
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Posted by: gam3r
This morning my family told me their computer would not load. I went downstairs and booted it up and I got the following error: could not load hal.dll, may be missing or corrupt. So i figured i would run windows repair. I popped the disk in and went into the repair consol. I tried expanding the file, but its just not working. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I need to replace or write in a new copy of this file. If anyone has any ideas on how to do this, I would be greatly appriciative.
Posted by: deshana
gam3r ,
HAL.DLL problems come up a lot when upgrading to SP2 under windows XP, when a BIOS does not support hardware that XP does. I can do into detail, but bottom line would be to ask if they did that, in which case format reinstall is the only option. Now, otherwise missing Windows files are normally because of a failing hard drive. Run a free program called salvation scan on it and let me know the results.
Posted by: redwench
do a repair install, that should fix it if its just a bad or missing file.
Posted by: FadedMaster
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
Posted by: gam3r
Deshana, My family upgraded to service pack two a LONG time ago and the computer ran fine until the other morning. As for your harddrive theory goes, that may be a big possibility.
Redwench, I popped the disk in, went into the repair consol and tried copying hal.dll to the system32 folder, but it told me it was unable to copy the file.
FadedMaster, as for that site goes, I already looked at it and it didn't really help.
Thanks for your suggestions anyway guys. I guess the computer is just getting old and needs to be replaced or needs a new harddrive.
Posted by: redwench
a repair install, not the recovery console
Posted by: gam3r
Well i'm not exaclty sure how to do that. Although its more complicated than i expected because we upgraded from Windows ME to XP. When i put the xp disk in, it doesn't read. I have this special xp upgrade disk. I don't know if this changed anything, but i'm not exactly sure how to do a repair install.
Posted by: FadedMaster
Boot with the disc in the drive like you do to go to the recovery console. Instead choose to install the OS and then when selecting which partition, you will highlight the one with Windows XP already on it, and push the R key. It will say at the bottom.
Posted by: gam3r
Hmm ok, i'll give it a try and post the results.
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