hi, i have a pc with windows xp home.

and i installed spy sweeper, and when it told me to restart windows, i did and then as the computer was restarted it gave me a error message saying the file hal.dll is missing.

i tried different methods to fix the problem, but nothing.

so i figured i would just reinstall windows and at the blue screen when you choose the partition. it shows 3 partitions.

my windows was not c: it is d:. but it doesnt show the d partition.

i searched google and found nothing.

please help

I hope that your CD can access the recovery console.

When the setup loads, press R to enter the recovery console. Windows should prompt you to select your windows installation (keep the drive letter of Windows' location). Select the correct partition and then enter the administrator password that you entered while installing Windows (if any. This is not the password that you may use when logging in to Windows!).

Now you will have to find the drive letter of your CD/DVD drive. Well, the only way to do that is to go through letter C to F and dir each drive and check the contents until you can find your CD/DVD drive.
Once you find it, type cd i386 and then type expand hal.dl_ <letter that I told you to keep in mind>:Windows\system32\[/i].

After that, type exit and see if Windows boots.


I'm not sure if you can replace a hal.dll this way, since I've heard that every hal.dll is unique for that computer, but you lose nothing to try it...

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Originally posted by whalenp
my windows was not c: it is d:. but it doesnt show the d partition.

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Originally posted by nimicitor
Have you tried doing a System Restore to before you installed SpySweeper?

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