Russell McMahon wrote:

>Among other things it claims not to be able to find HAL.DLL in 
>windrive\SYSTEM32. This Google supplied explanation 
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm sounds highly 
>plausible but the files seem to be where they are meant to be. Reet. 
>(It usually really means it has put its files on some partition or 
>other but has decided that they are really somewhere else).
>
>  
>
The missing hall.dll error is due to a damaged boot.ini file. The boot.ini
tells the system where to find windows and hall.dll is the first file it 
looks
for. So probably the hall.dll isn't missing at all. It just can't find it.

I would format and reinstall. That's may turn out to be the fastest way to
make it work.

regards,

Vidal


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