xp wont boot up

zenkar
By zenkar
May 2, 2007
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  1. Ok so when I turn the pc on I cant even get to the XP logo. after the bios loads and all I get a black screen. I thought my raptor HD died.::cry:: But I was able to back it up on my brothers PC and it seemed fine.

    So I ran the recovery xp disks (the 6 disks) and after I hit R and chose the drive it blue screened. Next I tried the boot disk with ntdlr,boot.ini and ntdetect.com and when booting it gave me: The root>system32\hal.dll file is missing or corrupt.

    tried adding that file from another xp machine to the boot disk but it didnt work.

    Now I dont know what else to do and I really dont have any cd's ect to reinstall... :confused:

    BTW: I cant even get to the safe mode, last known good config screen
    zenkar, May 2, 2007
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  2. zenkar

    zenkar Newcomer, in training Topic Starter

    bump :( :(
    zenkar, May 2, 2007
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  3. Da_g33k

    Da_g33k Newcomer, in training

    this maybe a long way round but i know of no others, get hold of a formatting program eg: killdisk. this will erase all data on you hard drive basically it will be like when you get it from the shops. after you have formatted your drive (this will take a while), just try re-installing windows, this should solve your problem.

    g33k.

    **edited found some more info*
    i was searching around, found out that XP has a handy little rebuild command heres the link http://www.compphix.com/corrupthal.html
    Da_g33k, May 4, 2007
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  4. jobeard

    jobeard TS Ambassador Posts: 13,288   +281

    if you reformat, you will still need the HAL.dll -- this is a vendor specific file.
    if you have the OEM recovery disk, you should find a copy on it.

    My problems were different, but the need to avoid a reformat was important to
    me.

    See this post for a summary of how I got access to the HD
    jobeard, May 4, 2007
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  5. CCT

    CCT Newcomer, in training Posts: 3,556

    You can force a Hal change by inserting the XP disk and booting from the cd - when the screen asks if you want to press F6, press F5 instead - after a few seconds you will come to a screen to select your Hal - helps to know what it should be before hand. Then carry on to a repair Install.

    If that cpu you have is a dual or hyper core, then you probably have an ACPI Multiprocessor cpu - if it is a single processor, then you likely have an ACPI Unprocessor cpu.

    However, check into that.

    :)
    CCT, May 4, 2007
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