Just discovered this wonderful site, as a result of not such a wonderful experience with my PC. Missing or corrupt hal.dll. Bummer! Hoping beyond hope that advice here will allow me to rescue the beast..Cheers from sunny Oxfordshire, Doug
Just discovered this wonderful site, as a result of not such a wonderful experience with my PC. Missing or corrupt hal.dll. Bummer! Hoping beyond hope that advice here will allow me to rescue the beast..Cheers from sunny Oxfordshire, Doug
Hey & Welcome to the Forum, I'm sure someone will be able to help you, jus make a post in the relevant area
Hey Doug, one of the simplest things to try to resolve this is to start with XP's Rebuild command. The short form of the fix is as follows:
Step 1. Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console
Step 2. Enter the command attrib -h -r -s c:\boot.ini
Step 3. Delete the file (del c:\boot.ini)
Step 4. Run bootcfg /rebuild
Step 5. Run fixboot
If the above doesn't work, then this site may help, if not let us know and we may come up with the answer, http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
Before you attempt any of the above, if you can make a backup of your data/work files, just in case.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by vinnyT; 25-03-2007 at 02:26 PM.
May be worth running chkdsk in a in the recovery console command window too - to check the disks integrity.
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