Re: I'm REALLY in trouble now!
- From: "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 07:16:52 -0700
"Lunaray" <yarNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11eu5sskd3iau71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My problem history:
>
> I have an older Dell laptop that came loaded with Win'98SE, I upgraded it
> to WinMe and recently, I've been trying to install a wireless adapter,
> with absolutely no luck! After talking to Linksys and bouncing several
> posts around Newsgroups, I felt that the Linksys adapter was probably
> defective, so today I purchased a different brand (Motorola) and I ran
> into problems with it too (Missing .dll files, mostly)! So I figured that
> there must be something wrong with my OS, so I bought a WinXP upgrade and
> tried to upgrade my OS, but ran into another missing file! Being very
> frustrated, I decided hell with it, I'm going to choose "New Install" and
> start fresh, NOT!! The installation got as far as copying new files &
> folders, but when it rebooted itself, I got the following error:
>
> "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
> <Windows root>\System32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above
> file."
>
> What do I do now? I can't even boot into a Command Prompt and copy the
> file, 'course I don't know how to do that anyway!!
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thank you,
> Ray
>
It sounds like a hardware problem. Bad ram, bad hard drive, or bad CDROM
drive are all possible given the symptoms.
Kerry
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