HAL.dll Corrupt

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Steve Repp

Hi all,

Quick question about the HAL.dll. We had the DLL go south on a dual boot
XP/XP-Japanese Dell OptiPlex last night. Standard boot from CD/run repair
fixed the issue.

Anyone have any idea what causes this kind of corruption? Anything I can do
to limit the possibility in the future?
 
Steve, anytime I have gotten that error it usually for me has something to
do with the Boot.ini file. For example, if I add or
delete a Primary Partition I have to reflect that in the Boot.ini. or I
will get that Hal.dll corrupt or missing. Since I dual and
multiboot I always have access to the boot.ini. from another OS Linux,
Win2k, etc
 
Understand. Any idea what would cause the boot.ini file to get corrupted?
 
Steve, in my situation it was a difference between what boot.ini was
saying and the hardware abstraction layer was seeing.
Hal picking up the change in number of partitions and boot.ini not
reflecting that change unless editing it manually.
 
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