File missing or corrupt??

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I have a dual-boot system with Win2000 & WinXPPro. Everything was working fine, but the other day I tried to boot into my WinXP partition and I get an error: "System32/hal.dll file missing or corrupt please re-install this file. So, I tried to look for this file in the WinXP CD and is not found, does anybody know how to re-install this file? I tried booting from the WinXP CD too & ran a checkdisk command which let me know also about the corrupt file. How can I solve this problem?

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/cocotu/ said:

I have a dual-boot system with Win2000 & WinXPPro. Everything was working fine, but the other day I tried to boot into my WinXP partition and I get an error: "System32/hal.dll file missing or corrupt please re-install this file. So, I tried to look for this file in the WinXP CD and is not found, does anybody know how to re-install this file? I tried booting from the WinXP CD too & ran a checkdisk command which let me know also about the corrupt file. How can I solve this problem??

From a recent post...

Missing HAL.DLL...

That indicates that there is corruption of the boot.ini file: That
tells the boot where to look for windows components, and it is looking
in the wrong place. Hal.dll just happens to be the first file it looks
for.

Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
requested is blank, and TAB over.
Give:
ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
DEL C:\Boot.ini
(thus deleting the old one)
BootCfg /Rebuild