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O.P. Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
I messed with my boot settings and when I restarted my system it says, "Windows could not start as the following file is missing or corrupt:

C:/...system32...Hall.dll

Please reinstall this file".

Now I have searched online and on this forum and I have found options all of which require me to lose data (or so I think). I would like to hear someone who is good in this field to suggest what to do.

P.S. I have tried dling the SP2 boot disks of Microsoft altough my pc does not have a Floppy Disk Drive and I don't have any floppys...which is required to install the files from the .exe and it only installs on to a floppy and not a HD or a CD.

Edit: Solved with an XP SP2 Disc and using Recovery Console

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RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...
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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
and it only installs on to a floppy and not a HD or a CD.
to boot from cd, you need to set the bios to boot from a cd, get into the bios, search for it... and enable it. (i dunno if this helps but there is another boot option to boot from the last good configuration found it may help.. let other member confirm this...)
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RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...
Try installing something that overwrites it with its own version, like norton or something.
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O.P. RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...
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Originally posted by damm-o
to boot from cd, you need to set the bios to boot from a cd, get into the bios, search for it... and enable it.

No that's not what I ment, I ment the installer from Microsoft to install the SP2 XP boot-up only installs from the .exe to a Floppy which I don't have and the pc which I need to use the Floppy on does not have a Floppy Disk Drive on it. Also I believe this deletes my PC's data which i don't want.

I have tried Safe-Boot and every other boot-up option and none of them work. Not even Last-Good-Config. My Packard Bell Recovery does not even work, I get the same error message as above (the hal) or I get a run-time error.

P.S. My PC already is set to run boot-able CD's.

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Try installing something that overwrites it with its own version, like norton or something.

I don't have another version of it, I have just download a Hal.dll from the net (a dll site) should I put this into my PC? Will this boot it and use it to replace my Hal persuming it's there and it's corrupt or put it there for my pc to use persuming it's missing?

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RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
Have a look here and see if this helps. It was the first result I found on google.
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RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional, tyvm, saves you from all these crappy disk errors windows can sometimes spit out. It also makes a very powerful boot CD-ROM.

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O.P. RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
Thanks, Dane im going to try that. TheItalianStallion i've already read that it's no good.
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RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
I have tried dling the SP2 boot disks of Microsoft altough my pc does not have a Floppy Disk Drive and I don't have any floppys...which is required to install the files from the .exe and it only installs on to a floppy and not a HD or a CD.
I know what you mean about being able to use that only from floppy, but what can you do with those disks? If you boot from a Windows CD you can press R at the first screen for Recovery Console, which is a DOS.
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RE: RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
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TheItalianStallion i've already read that it's no good.
What exactly did you tried out from that page? Because the page explains exactly what you must do to fix this....
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O.P. RE: Hal.dll Corrupt...can no longer start Windows!
I am not prepared to take my hddrive out...it's really not an option. However I am going to use the software Dane recommended or try to replace Hal with a working copy from a CD.

I also don't have an XP disc as stated in my first post.

This post was edited on 01-30-2006 at 05:55 PM by _Humphreys.
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