Saturday, December 20, 2008

HAL.DLL is Missing or Corrupted

Option 1 :Boot from your CD and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. Then:

Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
DEL C:\Boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
Fixboot

Option 2: Boot from your CD and follow the directions below to start Recovery Console.

Most likely you will need to expand the file from the CD. The command would be

c:\windows\d:

d:\expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll

Substitute d: for the drive letter of your CD. Once you have expanded the file type “exit” to exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer.