suave_guy
pedal to metal
hal.dll is missing is a very common xp problem
3 causes for it
1 - Corrupted disk
2 - boot.ini is damaged or missing
3 - hal.dll is actually damaged or missing
for ist case we gotta boot the computer in recovery console and run "chkdsk /p" followed by "chkdsk/r"
if that solves the prob than fine otherwise for 2nd case go to recovery console again and type "bootcfg /rebuild" , this will rebuild your boot.ini file. so restart the sys and see
if we still hve the problem than we need to copy/expand the hal.dll file from the cd to the hard drive but first try the first two steps....
ENjoy...
3 causes for it
1 - Corrupted disk
2 - boot.ini is damaged or missing
3 - hal.dll is actually damaged or missing
for ist case we gotta boot the computer in recovery console and run "chkdsk /p" followed by "chkdsk/r"
if that solves the prob than fine otherwise for 2nd case go to recovery console again and type "bootcfg /rebuild" , this will rebuild your boot.ini file. so restart the sys and see
if we still hve the problem than we need to copy/expand the hal.dll file from the cd to the hard drive but first try the first two steps....
ENjoy...