Killed my comp...

where oh where has me .DLL gone?..oh where oh where can it be??

...I was messing with my comp last night...and figured...what the hell I don't use Linux much...delete that partition...not thinking about the simple fact that...it would also delete the GRUB boot loader...and I wouldn't be able to log into XP..well then.

I reinstalled Linux...and figured I'll keep it this time...but theres one slight problem...now that I have Linux and the boot loader installed again...when I try to go to XP...it says I'm missing a .DLL file...

what the heck happened??

where is it??

if you need to know what .dll I'll find out for you in a second. (Running updates)

I know you can put in the XP recovery disk and do a Repair....but this computer was given to me (the lady thought it didn't work anymore because someone poured water down the back of her monitor....go figure..)...so it has no CD's....I can get my friends XP disk if needed to do the repair option...but is there any other way?

eMachines W3107
Sempron 3100+
512 RAM
100GB HDD....
partitioned to 50GB for XP
10GB for Linux
1GB swap file
the rest is another partition for storage.



EDIT: the missing file is...

<windows root> \system32\hal.dll

 

You will need to know the dll

http://www.dll-files.com/