Cannot start Windows

Since the latetst update of Windows I cannot start Windows XP at all, because
a file windows-hoofdmap\system32\hal.dll is damaged or cannot be found. Can
anyone tell me what I should do?
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Sjors, Gouda, The Netherlands

Additional info: I interrupted the update. Reinstalling Windows is the
solution?
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Sjors, Gouda, The Netherlands


"Sjors" wrote:

Since the latetst update of Windows I cannot start Windows XP at all, because
a file windows-hoofdmap\system32\hal.dll is damaged or cannot be found. Can
anyone tell me what I should do?
--
Sjors, Gouda, The Netherlands

This is a problem which usually happens across Europe more then it does
in other parts of the world (dont ask why lol), hal.dll is a file which
is associated with the hardware abstraction layer, this controls and
communicates with Windows to initiate its starting phase, however
sometimes a mis-communication between hal.dll and Win XP occurs ideally
in Windows SP1, This is usually because the file BOOT.INI cant locate it
anymore, to solve it you have:
Restart your computer and insert the Windows CD-ROM
Press the R button until a repair prompt is given
This should then give you options on which SP your using, choose the
correct one of course
Now type bootcfg / list (this will display the contents of BOOT.INI)
To repair this type bootcfg / rebuild
once done type exit.

This should remake your whole BOOT.INI database and hal.exe should now
work fine, if the problem persists then the Recovery process will be
needed.


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Thanks for your reaction. I use SP2 and tried what you described. However, I
kept pressing the R-button what resulted in a restart that was stopped
accompanied by beeps. As soon as I stopped pressing the R button the restart
was continued until the meaasge that the hal.dll file was missing. Any idea?
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Sjors, Gouda, The Netherlands


"svchost.exe" wrote:


This is a problem which usually happens across Europe more then it does
in other parts of the world (dont ask why lol), hal.dll is a file which
is associated with the hardware abstraction layer, this controls and
communicates with Windows to initiate its starting phase, however
sometimes a mis-communication between hal.dll and Win XP occurs ideally
in Windows SP1, This is usually because the file BOOT.INI cant locate it
anymore, to solve it you have:
Restart your computer and insert the Windows CD-ROM
Press the R button until a repair prompt is given
This should then give you options on which SP your using, choose the
correct one of course
Now type bootcfg / list (this will display the contents of BOOT.INI)
To repair this type bootcfg / rebuild
once done type exit.

This should remake your whole BOOT.INI database and hal.exe should now
work fine, if the problem persists then the Recovery process will be
needed.


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