WidowXP repair

I had a power surge and I can not start WindowXP on my Pentium III 866 MHZ computer. I tried to run repair and during repair it give a C:\ .

I do not know what command I should use to repair the windows on my hard drive.

When I start without booting from CDROM, then I get following message.

" " Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. <windows root>system32\hal.dll

Please reinstall a copy of the above file. " "

Can you suggest how can I reinstall this file?

" " Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. <windows root>system32\hal.dll

 

The file that is supposedly corrupt is located, on my machine, in System32, and Service Pack Files\i386......

If that don't work, go Here and get yourself a new copy....

Good luck

Ski

 

You claim you expirianced a surge which caused your error.

If you boot to your CD and choose the repair option and it does the repair and you STILL get the error message, you have a fried stick of memory.

Try this....

If you have multiple sticks of memory installed in your system. Remove them and place only one stick in at a time and see if the machine boots up.

If after swapping each of the sticks this doesn't correct the problem, you may have to start over from scratch.


I have seen this error numerous times with incompatible or bad memory sticks in machines.

 

Thanks for your reply.

I tried to repair the OS by booting up with window CD and not using the R option first time and try to use F10 key and Repair option atsecond time during windowXP installation. Instead of repair the existing OS , WindowXP was installed at newly created partition on the same hard drive. Now I got two OS on the same drive. The computer works fine but I can not access the data I had with original OS.

What should I do to retrive the data which are with original installed OS? is ther a way to access the data?

 

Bad XP

Sounds like someone played a nasty trick and deleted the HAL.dll
file to me....either way, what Whurd said sounds true.

If all else fails, Format that sucker and start all over.

Concerning the duel OS thing......U'R lookin' at nothing but trouble
in the near furture. I'd just count it all as water under the bridge,
format it, start over, put a Surge Protector and a UPC on it and
learn to BACK-UP YOUR PC!!!! to a disk, tape or CD-R/RW.

PC Tech for PCTech Computer Services

 

WindowXP reapir

Thanks.

Here is some findings on my problem. It was not the surge which had caused the problem. I was getting blue screen with administrator call message when I log off and before the computer turns off. At that time we lost power.

It affected the hard drive, damage my floppy and CD burner.

I took the hard drive to a professional guy to retrive the data and I will post his findings. The hard drive is not damage but it did mess up the OS.



Mod admin note - merged the threads. Please keep it all in the same thread. Too confusing otherwise.