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More info?)
I would boot off your Windows XP Installation CD, choose to Install
Windows, then it will find your existing installation, then press R to
repair the OS. Note: Don't press R for Recovery Console (that is the
first option), but choose Install, then R
This should automatically fix the OS.
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Nathan McNulty
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> thanks, but ho do i get that file if windows won't start?
> on the boot screen it says "can't find
> windows/system32/hal.dll"
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>First off, the error message when Windows boots up and
>
> tells you to
>
>>reinstall hal.dll is usually caused by putting the NTLDR
>
> file on a drive
>
>>without Windows and trying to boot from it. If the file
>
> really is
>
>>missing, you can extract it from hal.dl_ on the Windows
>
> XP CD under the
>
>>i386 directory. Are you sure there is a valid
>
> installation of Windows
>
>>on the drive that this error is occuring on?
>>
>>----
>>Nathan McNulty
>>
>>clayton wrote:
>>
>>>i need to reinstall hal.dll into the windows\system32
>>>folder. but i have to do it through dos... would the
>>>command "fixboot" work?
>>>thanks for taking the time to help!
>>>clay
>>
>>.
>>
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