Re: XP Installation Headache: hal.dll

From: Michael (msheppard_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:29:41 -0500

The expand command is used to extract a file from a cabinet file(.cab). The
hal.dll file is located in cabinet file that resides in the I386 folder. It
is SP1.cab. If you look at the file your trying to get and the one you are
attempting to copy are 2 different files.
 expand x:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll
hal.dl_ and hal.dll
should be expand x:\i386\SP1\hal.dll
Hope this helps.
"Andrew Johnston" <andrewjnycx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95C212E16E8ADandrewjnycxhotmailco@24.168.128.74...
>I just added a new 160GB HD to my system, and I want to install XP on a
> 10GB partition on it and gradually migrate my programs and files to the
> new
> drive while retaining the ability to boot off the old drive until the new
> installation is fully configured etc. When I boot off the XP CD and tell
> it
> to create the partition on the new drive and install XP, once the
> formatting of the partition is done and the first batch of files has been
> copied over, I get an error message telling me that the hal.dll is missing
> or corrupt, which stops the installation dead in its tracks.
>
> Searching online reveals that the best solution for this is to go to the
> revovery console and use the expand command like so to get the file off
> the
> CD:
>
>
> expand x:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll
>
> where x is the drive letter of the CD ROM.
>
> The catch for me is that in the recovery console mode, I have no freaking
> clue what the CD ROM's drive letter is. In XP, the new partition is E:\
> and
> the CD ROM is D:\. But when I'm in the recovery console, the new partition
> becomes D:\. If I type in
>
>
> expand e:\i386\hal.dl_ d:\windows\system32\hal.dll
>
> the result is a "file not found" message. Ditto if I use f:\ as the CD ROM
> drive letter. Anyone got a clue how I might be able to expand the file
> under these circumstances?
>
> I'm pretty sure my Boot.ini is set up correctly (that seems to be the
> other
> typical source of this problem). Any and all advice on how to get to the
> bottom of this mess would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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