The computer is a 4500 Desktop

Windows XP Pro

Pentium 4/2GHz

 

This morning I woke up to this black screen message:

 

WARNING:  Dell's Disk Monitoring System has detected that drive 0 on the primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specifications.  It is advisable to immediately back up your data and replace your hard-disk drive by calling your support desk or Dell Computer Corporation.

Strike F1 Key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility.

 

After hitting the F1 Key I got this:

 

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

Windows/system32/hal.dll

Please re-install a copy of the above file.

 

I've copied the file (hal.dll) to disc from a computer running Windows XP Home.  When I insert this disc into the problem computer (with the black screen error message) nothing pops up.  I don't know how to access this file from the disc when I don't have access to Windows.  I'm not even sure that this is what I should be doing to begin with.

 

Any help would be apprecated.  And I should mention that I'm not particularly tech savy at all.

 

Thanks.