Vidal 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.

boot.ini is not rocket science. You can look at it if you can get any type
of access to the disk (e.g. recovery console).

Gerhard

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