My kids computer wont boot

edited February 2005 in Hardware
It's a older computer but when we tried to turn it on this morning it gave us this error while loading.


Windows cannot start because the file is missing or corrupted
<Windows Root>/system32/hal.dll.
please re-install a copy of the file

Well thats what it says, im not sure what to do.

I dont have a restore disk or anything like that, man I dont even think I can find the operating system CD either. But any help will be greatly acceptable, thx.

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  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited February 2005
    what version of windows is it?


    the easiest way to solve the problem is find/get another copy of the DLL, load windows to a command promt and copy the new hal.dll to the C:\Windows\System32

    i can send u my hal.dll i dont know if they differ from computer to computer or OS to OS


    here it mine form my WinXP Pro machine, its got instructions in there and it should all work.
    http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Armogeddon00/Hal.zip
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