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Mr_love_monkey · 01-07-2010, 22:39

My friend's pc has this error and won't boot - what's the best way to fix this?

Having googled, answers seem to consist of booting to the xp disc and using the recovery console, but this machine has no physical media, just the hidden restore partition that obviously he doesn't want to use as he likes his data.

Suggestions?

I'm currently looking at using a linux iso, and the copying the dll from an xp machine I have here - will that work?

As a last result I could probably take the drive out of the machine, attach to a machine here and copy it that way?

---------- Post added at 21:39 ---------- Previous post was at 21:35 ----------

oh also, he's got xp home, but my version here would be xp professional - would that stop me just copying it?

01-07-2010, 22:39	#1
Mr_love_monkey Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London way Age: 49 Services: Sarcasm Posts: 8,376	Missing or Corrupt hal.dll My friend's pc has this error and won't boot - what's the best way to fix this? Having googled, answers seem to consist of booting to the xp disc and using the recovery console, but this machine has no physical media, just the hidden restore partition that obviously he doesn't want to use as he likes his data. Suggestions? I'm currently looking at using a linux iso, and the copying the dll from an xp machine I have here - will that work? As a last result I could probably take the drive out of the machine, attach to a machine here and copy it that way? ---------- Post added at 21:39 ---------- Previous post was at 21:35 ---------- oh also, he's got xp home, but my version here would be xp professional - would that stop me just copying it?