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Name: Timothy Maclennan
Date: February 19, 2006 at 10:20:05 Pacific
OS: windows xp (home edition)
CPU/Ram: 512
Product: Dell
Comment:

when my computer first wouldn't boot up it said "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupted:
C:\windows\system32\hal.dll

I tried for hours to use the xp disk to boot up the computer I pressed r to repair the installation and kept trying to copy the missing file from the disks. It said access denied every time

I turned of the computer and now it says that the pci.sys file is missing can anyone help me

please?

Timothy Maclennan



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Response Number 1
Name: capt
Date: February 19, 2006 at 11:18:13 Pacific
Reply:

Can you enter the safe mode? If you can try these steps from Microsoft to see if you can replace the items that are giving you problems;

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545&Product=winxp


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Response Number 2
Name: Timothy Maclennan
Date: February 19, 2006 at 14:11:14 Pacific
Reply:

No but I have tried to use the Repair and recovery utility to copy the file but it says access denied.


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Response Number 3
Name: Timothy Maclennan
Date: February 19, 2006 at 14:26:26 Pacific
Reply:

I have now tried to set access permision to all paths in the Recovery utlity by typing the following line

Set AllowAllPaths = true

but it returned it said the set command was disabled and can only be enabled through the security settings but I don't know how to access them


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Response Number 4
Name: Chuck 2
Date: February 19, 2006 at 19:50:47 Pacific
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Response Number 5
Name: Timothy Maclennan
Date: February 20, 2006 at 12:28:09 Pacific
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I have tied everything on responce 4's links and none of it seems to work. Has anyone got any idea if it is posible with another computer to create a batch file that copies the pci.sys file and how?


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Response Number 6
Name: Timothy Maclennan
Date: February 23, 2006 at 15:16:58 Pacific
Reply:

I have resolved the problem with the last resort.

I Have re-installed the operating system and am now taking a fresh start.


Thank you everyone for your help.


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