Windows XP hal.dll missing or corrupt
Filed Under (Windows) by cranst on 15-04-2006
During a DiVX encode yesterday, my Windows XP box bluescreened and rebooted. It continued to reboot 3 more times before I actually interrupted it with a keypress. Only at that point did I have any idea what had happened. I still don’t know what the cause was, but I do know that I haven’t backed up my data often enough.
C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll missing or corrupt
After a few minutes of research on Google, everything pointed to the boot.ini being corrupt. Microsoft had several solutions here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314477, but getting into the Windows XP Recovery Console was a trick of its own. I’m only using SATA drives, which came a while after XP’s release so RAID drivers must be installed for the Windows XP install disk to even recognize the hard drives. I had to hunt for the drivers on MSI website, then hunt for a working floppy disk. It took longer to find the disk than it did to find the drivers. So I followed Method 2 of Microsoft’s solution and everything works now. In fact, I’m writing this post from my recovered XP box.
I have this problem right now with one of my PC’s. None of the steps I have found have worked. I can’t even access the partition with the windows install at all. Nothing works at all; chkdsk, fixboot, fixmbr, and so forth all fail. I am suspect that the drive has failed
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my system just got corrupt please help me
it is missing the system 32/hal.dll.
thank you
kathy
I would first check your hard drive connections, then try Microsoft’s offerings, but that doesn’t work, you may be experiencing hard drive failure. If you have a second computer that is able to receive this hard drive, I would recommend connecting it to that computer, and backing up anything you can. If this works, you’ll either have a limited amount of functional time left or it is not the hard drive at all. Better to have backed up your files either way. If this doesn’t work and the hard drive is not responsive, then your drive has just failed. At that point you have two options, if you are within warranty, you can request an RMA to get a replacement from the manufacturer or if the data is more important than the drive, you can send it to http://myharddrivedied.com/ to have the data recovered.