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missing or corrupt hal.dll
Name: carey bradshaw Date: September 20, 2001 at 20:56:18 Pacific
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i have a sytem with win me and created a dual boot scenario with xp. i created a separate partition on 1 hdd and use bootmagic to boot between os. after installing xp and rebooting, i get a message missing of corrupt windows\system32\hal.dll. could some one please help me figure this problem out or email me a good copy of this hal file. thank you
Name: gene Date: September 21, 2001 at 13:52:30 Pacific
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this has happenned to me three times in one week. first time i was clean installing and after copying the files and rebooting the problem appeared. second, on another computer working fine for a day and upon a reboot, with half a dozen intervening reboots, same problem. third time same as second. my setup is same as yours so i suspect it has something to do with boot magic. my interim solution was to make a logical hidden partition copy of a working xp with partition magic so if it happens again i can be back in business in 15 minutes. have not had the problem in two days but suspect it is not gone. tried upgrading boot magic from 1.01 that appeared on pm4.01 to 7.0, see what happens. also got a copy of hal.dll from working computer and overwrote the supposed corrupt version in DOS, still said it was corrupt so dont think it really is but xp sure does.
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Response Number 2
Name: Matt Yohe Date: November 8, 2001 at 21:55:15 Pacific
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Please help me.. i have XP and it is doing this to me.. I havent tried to dual boot it just up and did it to me.. I cant get to safe mode or anything..
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Response Number 3
Name: jimlad Date: December 12, 2001 at 12:24:53 Pacific
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this isn't a problem with partitions.
I don't know what/why it is happening. But it has happened to me 4 times in 1 week. XP ran fine for 1 month b4 this happened. then I got a network card installed, anyone else having this problem ?
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Response Number 4
Name: fred Date: December 24, 2001 at 21:02:06 Pacific
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hi guys u gotta welcome me to the club of windows problems.I have this same xp problem.If anyone can help please email me.
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Response Number 5
Name: John Dowling Date: February 13, 2002 at 07:08:54 Pacific
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I too have had this same problem three or four times in the last month. Is Microsoft listening? Just curious, anybody get this error under FAT32? Everytime I've gotten it its been in a NTFS partition of XP (while dual-booting PC-DOS in a separate FAT partition).
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Response Number 6
Name: Rene Gonzalez Date: March 16, 2002 at 19:14:47 Pacific
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I would like to share my eXPerience. I have multiboot system with 3 Fat32 Partitions: C:\Win98 D:\Win2000 E:\WinXP Win98 and Win2000 are just fine. When I installed XP and it ran fine for about 3 days and the fatel hal.dll error. I have re-installed XP for about 7 times.. It runs fine for a while then after a reboot or shutdown, I get the hal.dll error during boot up. I'm not working with XP and I will damn XP till Microsoft or anybody gets a fix for this..
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Summary: (the hal.dll issue) Error Message: Windows Could Not Start Because the Following File Is Missing or Corrupt... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320252 ...
Summary: i have been looking for info all over the net and couldnt find one.....my eror message is : Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.d...
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