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Strange Windows XP Error, Please Help
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Don't worry, I'm a mac guy, but my family remains faithful to Windows. On my mom's xp home machine, it refuses to start up. I get a black screen with the following text:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
I have no idea where I could copy this file from. let alone how to do it if I can't the the computer booted up(?)
I can do the system restore discs, but if we can get by without losing all our files, that'd be nice.
So any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
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I am pretty sure this is nemesis's forum. At the least it's windows. Probably find more help there...
http://www.hardforum.com/
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Banned
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Diego, CA
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pop in the the windows cd and boot off of it, selet enter to install let it see the existing install then press r to repair the install.
otherwise if you can get the file go into console off the cd and replace the file
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: St. Paul, MN
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I'll try that out, thanks.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: SCL.
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cntrl + alt + del
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iMac 20 Core Duo 2.0 Ghz / 1 GB RAM / 250 GB / ATI X1600
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