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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
Cookie it states here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
Read the
entire page...
It is a page build up with replies from people, going towards more and more specific and to the point and good solution.
Furthermore, what you quoted is indeed the solution (or at least one way to get it solved, as what is described in that section (which is corrected later on) will do exactly what I stated before)
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
You don't need a XP disc at all... Niether do you need to remove your HDD (though it is the most convenient and quickest way; otherwise you need to find a bootup disc which you can use to boot up and to reconize the installed HDD)...
What is stated on that page is that you simply need to copy the original hall.dll from the subdirectory i386 (from system32) to your system32 directory and to edit your boot.ini file to remove the corrupt line.
If you aren't able to access the disk then obviously booting up from a recover CD or boot cd or whatever is a way of getting in; just as sticking that HDD into another PC as slave (or in the same PC, but as slave) will do the same. The point is as described: replace the corrupted hall.dll in system32 with the good one found in i386, and also fix c:\boot.ini with a texteditor.
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