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mjducary

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September 6th, 2006 18:00

Windows root/ system 32

My secretary try to download Adobe and upon it unwrapping the software her computer crashed,

Now it gives me a Windows root system 32\hal.dll . can not boot error...

Can anyone help me?

Or how can we just re-install the missing file

thanks,

Mike

DD
Denny Denham
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Posted September 6th, 2006 18:00
mjducary,

See if this helps.
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mjducary
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Posted September 6th, 2006 18:00
Denny,

I can not get the system to get past the arror on the screen, it won't even start in safe mode?
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mjducary
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Posted September 6th, 2006 18:00

oooops I mean error, on the screen,

which is exactly as follows

Windows could not start up because the following file is missing or corrupt,

\system32\hal.dll

please reinstall a copy of the above file.

Thanks for your input
DD
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Posted September 6th, 2006 21:00
mjducary,

The instructions by Alex Nichol toward the bottom of the link I provided do not require you to boot to Windows. Rather, you boot with the XP CD to the Recovery Console (see this.