hal.dll missing on Ghost of Hard Drive

[Pink Sparkle Girl]

I used Norton Ghost to copy my current XP Pro partition onto a new hard
drive, but it doesn't boot up. (I tried it twice just in case there was an
problem the first time).

I get an error message about the hal.dll file being missing or damaged.

I have tried copying the file from my current hard drive into the cloned
one, but get the same error message on boot.

I tried the Recovery Console but it was unable to create the file using the
XP disk.

Is there anything else I can do as I don't want to spend hours and hours
installing and updating ALL my programs again!

Thanks, Sarah.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link to Kelly's web site:

"HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer"
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_h.htm

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Will Denny
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[AJR]

Common reason for message that HAL.DLL is missing is improper path, or
correct path not found, to startup files. Usually a misconfigured boot.ini.
DLL is not actually "missing" - but cannot be located.

 

[Pink Sparkle Girl]

I repaired the boot.ini file and sure it contained the new hard drive. It
worked this time and booted up.
The problem now is that XP is not set up as I cloned it, it is like when
first installed and although my other programs are there I doubt whether
many of them will work properly.
I tried to access System Restore, but it has some kind of problem and fails
to open.

Should I start again - format the partition and clone once more, or is there
something else I can do?!

Thanks, Sarah.