Missning or corrupt Hal.dll

[Guest]

Hi all

I'm in a bit of a pickle here hope someone can help me, Last night I
installed Nero 6 on my PC all seemed to go fine apart from Zone alarm hung a
bit but shut down ok. Came to boot today and the following message appears
unable to locate Hal.dll file on system32 ok I have scan the net for a
solution as I thaught use recovery on windows cd, so I bang the cd in the
PC slect boot from cd as priorty and windows setup starts to run ok.... the
ususal press f2 then f6 and so on install's all the usually drivers and so
on... then the message of windows is starting great .... but I then have a
blue screen telling me windows can't start because I need to run chkdsk /F I
am completly @ a loss on how get around this... please can any provide a
solution which does not involve me buying a new HD... I current have win xp
pro installed OEM on self build... this has been perfectly stable up until
now. ANy help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can run;
chkdsk /r
from the recovery console command line. (/r implies /f and /p)

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks. At
the "Welcome to Setup" screen. Press F10 or R to repair a Windows 2000
installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The Recovery
Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do not have
the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry is corrupted
or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console starts
in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You cannot
access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot,
and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been validated,
you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to the hard
disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer: drive
root, %systemroot% or %windir%


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Hi all
|
| I'm in a bit of a pickle here hope someone can help me, Last night I
| installed Nero 6 on my PC all seemed to go fine apart from Zone alarm
hung a
| bit but shut down ok. Came to boot today and the following message
appears
| unable to locate Hal.dll file on system32 ok I have scan the net for a
| solution as I thaught use recovery on windows cd, so I bang the cd in
the
| PC slect boot from cd as priorty and windows setup starts to run ok....
the
| ususal press f2 then f6 and so on install's all the usually drivers and so
| on... then the message of windows is starting great .... but I then have a
| blue screen telling me windows can't start because I need to run chkdsk /F
I
| am completly @ a loss on how get around this... please can any provide a
| solution which does not involve me buying a new HD... I current have win
xp
| pro installed OEM on self build... this has been perfectly stable up until
| now. ANy help would be greatly appreciated...
|