Corrupt/Missing hal.dll

[Felix Akasaka]

Hello helpful members of the forum,

I have a missing/corrupt hal.dll on an older emachines desktop. Window's doesn't get a chance to load and the computer won't boot CD's. The issue came up after I tried installing a chinese version of windows - the cd seems to simply inject a norton ghost image - but there was an error in norton and the install crashed. Now the computer boots, loads the bios, and displays the error. Is there a way to fix the file without loading a restore disk?

Thanks,

Felix

 

[sabashuali]

Use the link here - Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console for advanced users for instructions to get into recovery mode, using the XP set-up CD.
Then at the prompt, use the instructions here Windows XP/2000 Commands - system file checker to run the file system checker. This might solve the issue.

Good luck!

 

[Felix Akasaka]

Thanks; though I ended up wiping the hard drive and reinstalling Windows with the back up CD.

Felix