Hopeless88
Posts: 15 +0
Hi I hope I'm writing in the correct category. My issue is this. My sister was on the comp playing sims3 and when she shut it off and turned it back on widows xp wouldn't start and came to a error page saying the <systemroot>hal.dll file is corrupt or missing so I googled it and followed whatever directions that were most similiar to my problem. I entered the windows boot cd and went through the process of going to the repair page by pressing R and I did the bootcfg /rebuild and put in the info I did the the fixboot, I did the chkdsk r/ thing and still nothing I did the expand and copy of the file ntoskrnl.exe still nothing but instead now I get an error page of windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. So I deleted my existing partition and created a new one and still nothing. I even opened up the comp and disconnected the hard drive. Can some1 please help