XP WIN RECOVERY CONSOLE missing or corrupt: <WINDOWS ROOT>....\hal

SYSTEM: WIN XP PRO SP2 AND ALL UPDATES
1 HD 1 PARTITION SO ONLY "C:"
2 GB MEM
INTEL 530J CPU, INTEL MB 945

START UP STOPS WITH MESSAGE: WINDOWS could not start because the following
file is missing or corrupt: <WINDOWS ROOT>\system 32\hal.dll
Please reinstall a copy of the above file.

what I’m trying to avoid: installing old drive already loaded with win xp
pro and making bad drive a slave; coping files I need then reinstall OS and
all my apps and programs.

In Windows Recovery Mode Dir of C:\ i see my doc files but no OS related
file, no c:\windows there is config.sys listed

using Recovery Console Commands and results:
RC is not installe on my HD started it from XP installation disk can not
boot into safe mode

logon or logon /windows result: returns to prompt "c:\"
shouldn't it "list the detected installations of windows?

bootcfg /list result: There are currently no boot entries available to
display.

cd \windows result: The system cannot find the file or directory specified.

chdir \windows result: diddo

bootcfg /scan result: error: failed to successfully scan disks for Windows
installations. This error may be caused by a corrupt file system.... Use
chkdsk to detect errors.

chkdsk /p and chk /r result: shows info regarding HD with no indication of
an HD error.

expand cd-rom:\i386\ntkrnlmp.ex_ c:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe result:
Access is denied.

forgot command- it copies the missing hal.dll file from xp installation disk
to OS system32 and I also used the "expand" version of this command
result: Access is denied

FIXBOOT result: showed complete but same error message on restart

any ideas

.

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