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Hal.DLL file missing or corrupt

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Its pretty simple guys, and quite annoying. I dont know how it happened but it did. I have a windows home edition disk that is suppost to fix any !@#@'# problem that occurs. I want to completly delete my hard drives information and reinstall windows. I have no problem doing a complete reboot but how is my problem. I have a simple problem but of course nothing is simple in computers. I start computer, insert my windows disk. The windows setup doesnt come up. It says missing the hal.dll file from the system root like everyone has had before. If I boot from the cd-rom I get a new error, DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND HIT ENTER 0.0. And I have tried puting xp disk in there no good, I tried making iso doc file that has the reformat option from my hard drive maker, samsung, but cannot get any cd-rom program I burn in iso image to @#@$ run. I know this is simple, I can take it to a computer shop and it would be formatted. I want to know how, how to get passed this to install my windows disk. I have tried everything in my knowledge database. I did a reinstall of xp a few months ago, the cd-rom is fine along with the hard drive. I ran a bio's check on them and they pass the hard ware inspection. Some one fix this please. I've read some post saying delete boot.ini or modify or it something like that, but I cannot do anything, I have 2 screens, dll is missing or diskboot failure. I cannot get into anything or modify anything. If I could install doc that would be great, simply reformat the hard drive in doc. I dont understand how tho considering anything I burn on a cd-rom disk and pop in the disk in the cd rom it doesn't run, just gives me the same 2 errors. -_- Any explanation would be absolutely awsome!
- Moved by SachinW Friday, June 12, 2009 11:54 PM off topic (From:Social Bookmarks Discussion Forum)
Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:52 PM
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Hello Gunny,
Thank you for your post! Unfortunately there is not a current forum to post the question you are asking so I would recommend that you post you question to one of the 'microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage' located here: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage&mid=dec78ef3-df90-4490-8f71-f8f56311cc90
Hope that helps!
SachinW Tier 2 Application Support Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services TeamFriday, June 12, 2009 11:53 PM
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Hello Gunny,
Thank you for your post! Unfortunately there is not a current forum to post the question you are asking so I would recommend that you post you question to one of the 'microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage' located here: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage&mid=dec78ef3-df90-4490-8f71-f8f56311cc90
Hope that helps!
SachinW Tier 2 Application Support Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services TeamFriday, June 12, 2009 11:53 PM -
you havqe already been to where you need to go tot fix this
go back into BIOS and make sure that the cd rom is the first boot device
then insetrt the cd into the driv eand reboot
it should see the disk as the system disk and then allow you to format and move on
Saturday, June 13, 2009 11:13 AM