janey6152 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Hi, everyone. and man i love this site so informative.. I need help my Xp won't start.. Its telling me windows could not bec:ause the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system 32| hal.dll Please re-install a copy of above file.. How do i do this ?? thanks all janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Boot a live disk, if you are using NTFS use ntfsck (part of NTFSprogs, which will probably need installing) to check the file system for errors. If you are using fat32 fsck.vfat will do it. This problem is probably the result of a problem with the file system. It could also be the result of bad memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypesci Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Could you not just put the original XP CD in, boot as if you are going to install XP but choose the option to REPAIR INSTALL instead. That way it copies all original system files over but doesn't delete any of your files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janey6152 Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 I did tried to install original XP CD i did not see repair option. only format and i dont want to do that. where do i get ntfsck. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproble...storehaldll.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Hal.dll isn't really missing. Its your boot.ini file pointing to the wrong disk/partition. Post your boot.ini file and your disk/partition layout so we can assist you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janey6152 Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 How do i do that ?? Post your boot.ini file and your disk/partition layout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Boot from a linux live distro to get the files contents OR Get into the recovery console on your XP CD: cd /d c:\ type boot.ini Note "type" must be typed. Its a command. For getting the disk/partition layout: diskpart list disk select disk 0 etc... list part exit Write down the contents and post here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I did tried to install original XP CD i did not see repair option. only format and i dont want to do that. where do i get ntfsck. thanks apt-get install ntfsprogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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