Hello helpful members of the forum, I have a missing/corrupt hal.dll on an older emachines desktop. Window's doesn't get a chance to load and the computer won't boot CD's. The issue came up after I tried installing a chinese version of windows - the cd seems to simply inject a norton ghost image - but there was an error in norton and the install crashed. Now the computer boots, loads the bios, and displays the error. Is there a way to fix the file without loading a restore disk? Thanks, Felix
Use the link here - Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console for advanced users for instructions to get into recovery mode, using the XP set-up CD. Then at the prompt, use the instructions here Windows XP/2000 Commands - system file checker to run the file system checker. This might solve the issue. Good luck!
