flash Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 tried starting the computer, and it came up with a black screen saying that the following file is either missing or corrupt. windows root system32 hal dll the only problem is we dont have the XP disc, as its in surrey and im in devon is there any way of solving this through downloading a file to this comp and then transfering it to the ******** computer? cheers flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Take a look here mate, scroll down its on there: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 That's the official Microsoft code for "leave the pron alone". It sends a reminder to your Optician to get an early appointment booked in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 the funny thing is i dont watch porn anymore, well at least not on my own computer lol. let someone else deal with the viruses. it happened half way through a restore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 "That's the official Microsoft code for "leave the pron alone". It sends a reminder to your Optician to get an early appointment booked in." In that case does it qualify as a sexually transmitted infection? ZB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Can you restart by while tapping the f8 key putting it into safe mode? Worked for me once or twice.Think it let me do a system restore. Theres loads of stuff on Google about that error message,dont fully understand them tho. Good luck Flash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 im a retard and dont understand what is on the link. could some one with more brain power then me, please do a step by step, if they have the time. and please dont use to many long words. cheers flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) If you have another machine you could download and burn an XP CD, boot off it and go into the recovery console and restore the file by hand. Or if you have a USB memory stick put a linux distro on it, find the file with the version you need from someone else, then boot into linux, mount the XP disk and copy the file over that way. Or you could take the hard disk out, put it into another XP machine and mount the disk, copying the file over that way (saves having to have a XP cd but assumes you have another similarly versioned XP machine) The HAL dll is the hardware abstraction layer dynamically linked library - XP is built on NT technology, the HAL takes care of the low level hardware detection and management and provides layer between the OS and the hardware, partially why NT is much more stable than its predecessors. Put simply you are stuck without a way of accessing that machine, in reality if you don't have an XP cd to boot from you are going to be stuffed until you can get hold of one. The machine won't boot itself without that file, and without another way of booting it you won't be able to restore the file. Edited February 8, 2008 by pin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 i have a blank CD to which i can burn XP onto, where can i get the file to burn onto it. i also have a memory stick, how do i put a linux distro onto it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) mininova.org To download it mate Edited February 8, 2008 by BSA Shaun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Ok, if you have the means to burn a bootable copy of XP then do that, set the machine to boot from CD and boot from it, choose the recovery console (from memory I think it's f9) then follow the instructions. If you have a password set you will probably need to enter the password of a user who is a computer administrator. Once in the console issue the following commands :- (assuming XP is installed on C:, if not you'll need to adjust the following to suit) Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini DEL C:\Boot.ini BootCfg /Rebuild Fixboot Then reboot the pc with the CD removed. This should do it, but it depends on why that file is missing or damaged - could be massive filesystem corruption / hdd crash / massive virus damage etc. All you can do is fix the first thing it's complaining about and see how far that gets you. If you need to explicitly find the file to replace (for example if the file is really missing, much more likely to be a broken boot.ini file) its on the CD, you'd need to uncompress it from the CD into place, if you need to know how to do that post again or PM me Edited February 8, 2008 by pin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Flash if you dont want to download it, I have a copy in my bag at work and am on nights. Shouldn't take you long in the jimny to come and get it, I am here till 7am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 its tempting lol. i may have to resort to that if i get ****** off with this comp and kill it. also shaun, could u recomend a torrent on that sight to download, i suck at using the sites, and havent got a clue as to which one to use. cheers flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) First off you will need a Client to download as its a torrent site. So mate, download Bitcomet, just google it and you'll get it straight away. As for which torrent to download - on mininova - , have a look at the comments/thanks tab on them to see if they work etc, also sort your results by 'seed' Edited February 8, 2008 by BSA Shaun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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