Missing or Corrupt hal.dll

right the situation is my system 2 in my sig wont start it keeps coming up with the above, my question is there a way around this or will i have to reinstall/repair the isntallation? or has my hdd given up the ghost.

Thanks

 

I hope this link works! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

 

The only time I ever saw that was when the boot.ini was messed up and pointing to an incorrect partition. Boot.ini is what tells Windows what partition is the system partition.

See http://www.compphix.com/corrupthal.html for a way to repair it, or check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q289022/ for info on how to edit it manually.

 

thank you am checking now, ill let u no how it goes.

 

all fixed thank yopu so much, it couldnt find the bootcfg /rebuild so advised me to chkdsk which i did, then had to chkdsk /r and it worked, thank you all so much.