FIX Missing or Corrupt HAL.DLL
Every Windows user has had it. On startup your heart drops. A fatal error. Your computer's screen is all black except for the letters. Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\System32\Hal.dll . Luckily here is how you fix this problem!
First Missing or Corrupt HAL.DLL,
This happens to most people. You can't start your computer because its says missing or corrupt HAL.DLL.
The easiest way to fix this is to press F8 between the BIOS (for non-technical people- the BIOS is usually the company logo that happen right after you turn on the computer) and the Windows XP logo.
You will be presented with a menu. Choose the Last Good Boot Configuration or something like that. That (obviously) will start the last successful startup. But sometimes this fails. That's when you have to goto Plan B
Plan B
(You will need the Windows XP recovery console. This is only included a version of Windows that you bought. In won't be in yours if your computer came with XP preinstalled. To then get the console go here.
1. Insert your Windows XP cd. and restart your computer.
2. Your computer should start from the cd if it doesn't then I am goin to write a post on how to make it.
3. Within the Windows XP menu press R and your administative password is usually nothing so press enter when it asks you for that.
4. If you only have XP installed on your computer then type fixmbr and say yes to everything. Reboot and your DONE! If you have many OSes installed (i have three) than type copy boot.ini boot.backup (if file cannot be found then ignore it and continue). Then goto step 4 WARNING: You will get the same error if XP is not on the 1st partition. After step 4 you can reinstall GRUB if you use it and add more entries into your MBR with this.
Or if you use XP bootloader than you can open boot.backup with notepad (if you have boot.backup) and copy everything from there to boot.ini. But I recommand using the software.
Lastly, if none of these work then you have to copy Hal.dll from someones computer to yours. DONT SEARCH HAL.DLL ON GOOGLE!! You are kind of on your own on this. The way how I did it was I have Vista and XP installed and I went into vista and copied Hal.dll from my RECOVERY CD not Vista's Hal.dll and replaced it. Save the dead one. And after a couple of boots put the old Hal.dll back in!
Hope I helped!
- Andrew
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First Missing or Corrupt HAL.DLL,
This happens to most people. You can't start your computer because its says missing or corrupt HAL.DLL.
The easiest way to fix this is to press F8 between the BIOS (for non-technical people- the BIOS is usually the company logo that happen right after you turn on the computer) and the Windows XP logo.
You will be presented with a menu. Choose the Last Good Boot Configuration or something like that. That (obviously) will start the last successful startup. But sometimes this fails. That's when you have to goto Plan B
Plan B
(You will need the Windows XP recovery console. This is only included a version of Windows that you bought. In won't be in yours if your computer came with XP preinstalled. To then get the console go here.
1. Insert your Windows XP cd. and restart your computer.
2. Your computer should start from the cd if it doesn't then I am goin to write a post on how to make it.
3. Within the Windows XP menu press R and your administative password is usually nothing so press enter when it asks you for that.
4. If you only have XP installed on your computer then type fixmbr and say yes to everything. Reboot and your DONE! If you have many OSes installed (i have three) than type copy boot.ini boot.backup (if file cannot be found then ignore it and continue). Then goto step 4 WARNING: You will get the same error if XP is not on the 1st partition. After step 4 you can reinstall GRUB if you use it and add more entries into your MBR with this.
Or if you use XP bootloader than you can open boot.backup with notepad (if you have boot.backup) and copy everything from there to boot.ini. But I recommand using the software.
Lastly, if none of these work then you have to copy Hal.dll from someones computer to yours. DONT SEARCH HAL.DLL ON GOOGLE!! You are kind of on your own on this. The way how I did it was I have Vista and XP installed and I went into vista and copied Hal.dll from my RECOVERY CD not Vista's Hal.dll and replaced it. Save the dead one. And after a couple of boots put the old Hal.dll back in!
Hope I helped!
- Andrew
Read more...
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