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MattHewitt · 08-01-2003, 10:46 PM

Ok, tried replacing the hard drive... When I go to install windows on the new hard drive it gives me a new wonderful error... (At least I have an error to give this time though.) "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt! [Windowsroot\system32\hal.dll] Please reinstall a copy of the above file." Isn't that nice? My only option is to format as NTSF if that helps any. Only on partition on the drive. Forget all that other stuff... I just want windows on. Any idea what this message means? I figure once I get windows starting to install with tha graphics portion, I can see if by doing a whole bunch of other stuff, the restart problem has been fixed, but I can't even tell if it's been fixed because I can't get to the part where it hangs up. I guess one thing at time. Thanks again...

08-01-2003, 10:46 PM	#9 (permalink)
MattHewitt Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 10	Ok, tried replacing the hard drive... When I go to install windows on the new hard drive it gives me a new wonderful error... (At least I have an error to give this time though.) "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt! [Windowsroot\system32\hal.dll] Please reinstall a copy of the above file." Isn't that nice? My only option is to format as NTSF if that helps any. Only on partition on the drive. Forget all that other stuff... I just want windows on. Any idea what this message means? I figure once I get windows starting to install with tha graphics portion, I can see if by doing a whole bunch of other stuff, the restart problem has been fixed, but I can't even tell if it's been fixed because I can't get to the part where it hangs up. I guess one thing at time. Thanks again...