Hal.dll startup message

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Have a customers PC, Win XP Pro, just loaded our Access data base
program and at the first reboot the system fails to boot. Says cant
find the Hal.dll in the system32 folder. Have tried booting in safe mode
and "last known good configuration". No good. She does have the Windows
XP pro CD with her. Should I just copy the Hal.dll from the CD and copy to
the System32 folder?
 
You have Boot.INI trouble. Boot from CD, and start the Recovery Console Use
the command 'type C:\boot.ini' save the file for backup,
Identify your drives with the 'MAP' utility.
Compare the entries in the boot.ini [operating system] block, with the
results you see from 'Map arc'.
At this point you may see a way to hack boot.ini. You might try various
edits from backup.

The recovery console utilities
bootcfg /rebuild
and
fixboot
may help you do that.
 
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately it has been so many years since I
actually used the DOS prompt commands, I can't recall all the phrases and how
to type the
specific commands you listed to get a result. (memory is going with age I
guess).
Any chance you could "dummy" it up a bit for me and break down the suggestions
shown below... thanks Johnny Hawk
 
Well, if you don't want to do much tinkering, you can just boot to the setup
CD, and press 'r' for repair to open the Recovery Console prompt. Run the
command:

BOOTCFG /REBUILD

It will prompt you about what you want to include.

That should stop the HAL error, and allow the systems installed to boot from
the startup menu


Johnny Hawk said:
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately it has been so many years since I
actually used the DOS prompt commands, I can't recall all the phrases and
how
to type the
specific commands you listed to get a result. (memory is going with age I
guess).
Any chance you could "dummy" it up a bit for me and break down the
suggestions
shown below... thanks Johnny Hawk

Mark L. Ferguson said:
You have Boot.INI trouble. Boot from CD, and start the Recovery Console
Use
the command 'type C:\boot.ini' save the file for backup,
Identify your drives with the 'MAP' utility.
Compare the entries in the boot.ini [operating system] block, with the
results you see from 'Map arc'.
At this point you may see a way to hack boot.ini. You might try various
edits from backup.

The recovery console utilities
bootcfg /rebuild
and
fixboot
may help you do that.
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Mark L. Ferguson said:
Well, if you don't want to do much tinkering, you can just boot to the setup
CD, and press 'r' for repair to open the Recovery Console prompt. Run the
command:

BOOTCFG /REBUILD
Click to expand...
Mark I tried the "fixboot" from the command prompt and got it to create a new
boot.ini and restarted the PC. Happy day it started back up. Thanks so
much for
the help. Takes me back to the good old DOS days (sniff).

Johnny Hawk
Ctrl-Alt-Doh!
 
Yes, the fast approaching world of MONAD and "Commandlets" will have us back
on the command line in no time.

Glad to hear it worked out.
 
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