hal.dll

Hey guys.

I tried to restart my computer and when it tried to boot it showed this:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_2223.jpg

Any ideas?

 

Hi there... it would help to solve your problem if you gave us a bit more information about your computer. Plz post the Specs and the Operating System.

 

More important do you have your Windows CD ?

 

I have Windows XP and I have the CD but not the recover disk. I've also included my specs.

 

If you can boot from your windows cd to the recovery console, run check disk

chkdsk /r

 

If Check Disk doesn't fix it follow this thread

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=151911

 

This is what I get and I can only enter 1 character...

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_2225.jpg

 

You enter the number 1

The options list would read 1,2 3, etc if there were more operating systems.

If you don't have an administrator password just press enter when it asks for one.

 

Ok, so I tried the link you gave me and it worked well but then it said, "It is very important that you do one or both of the following two things: First, every Windows XP owner must use /FASTDETECT as an OS Load Option when the rebuild process is finalizing. Secondly, if you are the owner of a CPU featuring Intel's XD or AMD's NX buffer overflow protection, you must also use /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN as an OS Load Option. I will demonstrate both commands for the purpose of this guide, but do not set NOEXECUTE as a load option if you do not own one of these CPUs. For the "Enter Load Identifier" portion of this command, you should enter the name of the operating system you have installed."

What do I do?

 

Use the link by DLB in post#5 it has screen by screen shots of the process.

 

Which link?... Im getting ahead of myself. I tried the BOOTCFG /REBUILD command and it failed so I tried the code you suggested (chkdsk /r). Thats the right thing to do, right?

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_2227.jpg

 

Ok, so I do the chkdsk /r and it said it solved some issues. However, when I again tried the rebuild it showed this:

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_7800.jpg

 

Ok, I tried them... Heres what I got:


Option 1:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_7801.jpg

Option 2:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_7804.jpg

:confused


Nevermind... I just remembered that I tried this before and I had gotten past the DEL C:\Boot.ini step but couldnt do the BootCfg /Rebuild step. So bassicly I have no boot.ini to edit or recover... I'm now stuck... any ideas?

 

Ok, so I got boot.ini back, but I'm still stuck on the Attribute step...

 

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_7806.jpg



Any ideas?

 

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_7807.jpg

??

 

Ok, since I can't edit anymore just ignore the previous post by me. The mistake was I was using the wrong drive (was using d: but it was really e So just now when i do the command (look below) with e:, I get an error saying "Unable to creat file hal.dll. 0 files expanded."

This is so frustrating...:confused

 

Oh, and I tried again "C:\> ATTRIB -H -R -S Boot.ini" but got "The parameter is not valid. Try /? for help." I also tried "ATTRIB -H -R -S c:boot.ini" and "ATTRIB boot.ini -H -R -S" but to no avail... any ideas?

 

Unfortunately the recovery console is not the friendliest of environments.

It also has some rather odd rules.

When you first enter the console it places you in the system root folder.
For WindowsXP this is c:\windows

The change directory (CD) command is limited so you cannot step back to the C:\ directory where boot.ini is located.

Worse there is no edit command.

The copy command also has some strange limitations.

You can copy from a floppy to hard drive

You cannot copy from hard drive to floppy

You can copy from anywhere on the hard drive to anywhere else on the hard drive.

to copy you need (to know) the full path.

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You can view the boot.ini by making a new directory in c:\windows
(this is not strictly necessary, but do it for tidiness)
and copying the file there. Then use the type command to view.

md atemp
copy c:\boot.ini c:\windows\atemp\
cd atemp
type boot.ini

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To replace boot.ini manually you need one from another computer.
I have uploaded one with this post. Download it and rename it from boot.txt to boot.ini
It is from a Dell with XP SP2, so it has an OEM partition. Thus it boots from
partition(2).
You may need to edit this to partition(1) or whatever with a text editor such as Notepad. Do not use Word.

Copy the boot.ini to a floppy and when you are in the recovery console

copy a:\boot.ini c:\
yes to overwrite file.

does the trick, as many times as you need.

 

@ Studiot: Tried it and no errors, however the problem still exists.

@ TimW: There is no repair option when I hit enter to install.

 

How would I do that? I have never opened a computer up before and I don't know how to save all my data. And are you sure I will not lose any data?

 

I'm afraid Tim is right the next step is a 'repair installation'. This preserves all data and most settings; you will have to reinstall antivirus and certain programs.

You can only do this if your CD version of Windows is the same service pack as the computer.

To access this hit enter for setup instead of hitting R for repair console at the first screen when booting from CD.

At the second screen choose R for repair installation.

I will be away till the weekend so over to Tim for more.

 

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/laurenspicss/IMG_2236.jpg

 

Ok guys, it's been 5 days. I have decided that I'm just going to do a fresh install of xp. I don't have much stuff that I really want so i'm just going to do that. Thank you guys for all of your help. :grouphug