Dysphoria Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Ok this is what happen. I have a multi boot system, when I try to boot to Windows XP Pro I get an error that hal.dll is missing from the system32/ folder. The problem is that now I dont have access to my Win XP partition since it is NTFS. Help !!! Anyone knows how to solve this problem? Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 did you get red hat installed? and now you have this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 use the windows xp cd to recover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenreaper Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Boot from your XP CD-ROM. Tell it to repair files, or use the recovery console and copy hal.dll directly from somewhere (it should be on the CD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dysphoria Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 OK, I'll try the recovery option and see if I can save my partition. Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 see if you can copy the hal.dl_ from the cd:i386 cd being the drive letter for the cd drive so it's propably this but i'm not sure maybe someone can verify copy cd:hal.dl_ c:windowssystem32 then I guess you will need to rename the hal.dl_ to hal.dll then type exit be sure to use the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dysphoria Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 I cant even get to there. I cant access my NTFS partition at all. When I boot and chose the recovery option it asks me to enter recovery disk, which I dont have. Then I tryed to make one on my other desktop, but it did not work because is a different system. It seems like my system is locked, and I started losing hope. Damn I have so much stuff on that computer. I dont know what else to do........ :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 did you boot from the cd? thats what you need to do. just as if you were installing windoes. when it give the recovery option I think you need to press R on the keyboard then enter the administrators password copy cdDrive:i386hal.dl_ C:windowssystem32 put in your own drive letters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dysphoria Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 Ok I got to the recovery prompt and I did copy the hal.dll to my system32 folder, but when I rebooted I got the same error. I think that that file gets writen as you install XP and it contains your hardware, so I dont think its going to work if I just copy it over from a CD.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dysphoria Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 Thats it I am reformating my harddrive. I hate f**kin Bill Gates and the whole Microsoft skeem. Motherf*ckers, why cant he make one OS that works right instead of comeing up with different OS's every year. *******..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dracula Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 I had the same problem a while ago. I rebooted to the last known good configuration which worked fine untill I rebooted again. Then the trouble started again. I tried all the options already mentioned in the posts in this thread, but none worked. When I got it to boot again I noticed it didn't show my boot menu ( I have a dual boot with win 98 ) I checked in my config screen to see what happened and noticed that my show bootmenu time was resetted to 0 secs. after putting this back to 20 secs the problem was gone. Now I only have an extra option in my bootmenu. 1 Windows XP professional 2 Microsoft Windows and new => 3 Windows (default) I haven't figured out how it got there or how to get rid of it... Hope it helps a little Grtz, Drac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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