just removed vista from my laptop and installed xp from a usb drive a friend gave me, all apparently went well, first boot up etc.. but then i restarted and removed the usb drive, booting from harddrive i immediately get the message "missing or corrupt hal.dll. please reinstall a copy of this file" blah...

i can still boot up into xp using a debug mode on the usb drive, soo my question is, whats the easiest way to replace the hal.dll?

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htttp://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal

User coments below that may help ya


fedk...cobra beat me by a minute.....

but.... from that thread...

I found a fix to the missing hal.dll that caused me to reinstall several systems. This time I managed to start the computer without a complete reinstall. All you need is a Windows XP Home or Pro cd. It can be sp1 or sp2. Yes a service pack 1 cd will fix a service pack 2 \"existing\" installation the way we are going to do it here. I can\'t say if a Home Edition cd would work with a Pro installation or vice versa. I haven\'t tried that yet. Anyway you will also need a boot disk. First step would be boot from the Windows XP cd (sp1 or sp2) and follow throught the steps untill you are asked what you want to do - \"Install Windows\" or \"Fix Windows using the Recovery console?\" Choose to install windows again. Follow instruction and when you get to the part that asks \"what partition do you want to install it on\" select the same partition you installed your previous Windows installation on. The basic idea here is you will be installing 2 operating sytems on the same computer and on the same partition. When you do - it will detect the previous installation and ask you how you prefer to install it. You\'ll have 2 choices and they are to install the new files to the existing \"windows\" folder (which will cause you to loose everything) or you can create another folder to install the fresh copy of windows. Don\'t worry we are not going to actually install windows we are just going to tell the computer we are and then we\'ll back out of doing it. As for now don\'t install it to windows but change the name to \"windows2\". Then confirm the procedure!! The cd will start going through the process of loading the drivers again for a full install and when it comes to the point that it says something like - \"Windows has finished performing maintenance on you hard drive\" then it will try to restart. Remove the cd and on restart enter the bios and disable the cdrom as a boot option. Exit bios and restart. The computer should start but if it doesn\'t put the boot disk back in and then it should start. After it starts you should not have to use the floppy to boot any more. Hal.dll has messed with me one to many times!!!!!! Good Luck - Don Ho

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Your Soul Is Mine

i'd d/l it and copy to your windows folder from the usb,,but some advice here.

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal

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Went to a zoo, they only had one animal there, a dog............. It was a shitzu....



I’z leakin… bring amberlamps

you lost hal?

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

That was my first thought

beat me to it tjolbi...

go buy some from the shop
halal chicken is easy enough to find.

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fixed it the easy way.. reinstalled

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