hal.dll is missing.

[bchivers]

Did a fresh install and got a hal.dll is missing message. Will post then I get the message. Searched google but haven't found anything that helps yet.

 

[Brazen]

did it go through the windows setup? May be a bad harddrive. Try getting to the recovery console, by booting to your Windows CD and run a chckdsk. You'll probably have to do another reinstall regardless; you can probably just do a repair install if you don't want to answer all the questions again.

 

[lyssword]

format drive and reinstall windows if you don't hav much to lose.

 

[bchivers]

 

[bchivers]

May be a bad harddrive.

I have an OS on another partition on the same drive, seems to be ok.

Try getting to the recovery console, by booting to your Windows CD and run a chckdsk

Did this said it fixed some errors didn't say how many.

you can probably just do a repair install if you don't want to answer all the questions again.

Tried this also, when it finished it was to reboot and it stopped at that point. I came back latter and pushed the power button to reboot it, got the same message.I don't want to reinstall again because I have done so quite a bit lately and I am afraid that Microsoft will turn me down.

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: bchivers

May be a bad harddrive.

I have an OS on another partition on the same drive, seems to be ok.

Try getting to the recovery console, by booting to your Windows CD and run a chckdsk

Did this said it fixed some errors didn't say how many.

you can probably just do a repair install if you don't want to answer all the questions again.

Tried this also, when it finished it was to reboot and it stopped at that point. I came back latter and pushed the power button to reboot it, got the same message.I don't want to reinstall again because I have done so quite a bit lately and I am afraid that Microsoft will turn me down.

That's strange, we just got a computer in this very same day with the same error.
I'm gonna look at it tomorrow, i'll post what we do here.
Damned microsoft.

 

[Lemon law]

With win xp, you can go to any dll site on the internet a download a copy of hal.dll---and then just add it to the directory it needs to be in---which you can find in your other copy of
xp. Which is one of the vast improvements of win xp over win 98.---in win 98---adding back the dll just does not work and you have to do a repair install. But if your hard drive is failing,
any repair install will not last long---and something else will screw up---and more and more data and critical parts of the OS will just go missing.

 

[bchivers]

With win xp, you can go to any dll site on the internet a download a copy of hal.dll---and then just add it to the directory it needs to be in---which you can find in your other copy of

Tried this. the .dll I d/l was larger than the one that was there. didn't work anyway.
How can I tell if I have a bad HD?

 

[Shawn]

Who is your hard drive manufacturer? Most have their own drive testing utilities.

 

[Forsythe]

http://www.xmission.com/~comphope/issues/ch000490.htm
Start system repair with your windows CD.

"expand x:\i386\hal.dl_ y:\windows\system32

In the above example "x" would be the letter of your CD-ROM drive and "y" the letter of the drive your operating system is installed on. If you need to determine the drive letters of your devices type "map"."

Worked perfectly for the computer i needed to fix.