Shortly after I press the Power button on my PC keyboard a message comes up saying that "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file."
Now the PC has not reached starting up to the desktop yet, it’s still before that, before the point where you choose which account to go in and type in the password, etc.
What do I do next because after this message comes up, I can’t do anything after that? And I tried putting it in safe mode, with and without command prompt but it would still come to this message. Please help, I need some desperate HELP!!
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1 IBMGuy // Jul 2, 2009
It’s quite a tricky process to get it back as it’s probably got corrupt, But it can be cured with a bit of patience, go to this link below and print out the instructions. If you complete this process and it still won’t boot then this might even mean your HDD is failing. Good luck.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm
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