Silly Registry Question

[Dark Assassin]

I know this has been asked several times I'm sure, but a friend's computer is reading the following message - "Windows couldn't start because Windows/System32/hal.dll is missing or corrupt."

Would a simply copy from a Windows XP Professional disk using the command "copy [drive letter]:windows/system32/hal.dll" from the repair console technically fix the problem? Or would there potentially be another necessary step?

Dark Assassin

[Scobar]

hal.dll has nothing to due with the registry, it is the Hardware Abstraction Layer that lets the software communicate with the hardware without screwing everything up. Unfortunatly for us it has a nasty problem of screwing up on it's own.

Fix
Boot to recovery
copy c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\hal.dll c:\windows\system32
it will want to overwrite it, and you want it to do that so hit YES

When it reboots it may ask for some drivers for stuff already there, just let it do its thing and you should be g2g.

As always if this doesn't work or makes things worse it's not my fault

Good Luck

[Dark Assassin]

Thank you very, very much for correcting my major oversight. I will try it.

Dark Assassin