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Ok heres my problem, i get stuck at the boot screen before loading windows. It wont load up because it sais that hal.dll is missing or corrupted. I can get on my computer and use that hard-drive, by booting up on this old 8GB Quantum i have with XP installed. The dll is there, i made a backup of it, and i tried the one from my 8GB, nothing. I also took the same one, but 2 months ago (from a northon ghost image from the drive) and the same happends...


I tried the bootcfg /rebuild solution, it worked once and never did again. What can i do without needing to re-install XP ? Because thats the last thing i want to do, after certain experiences from that.....

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Reinstall XP.

Sorry, but you've already tried the other way out.

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heh thats odd, i got it to work again by telling it that i had 2 partitions, and i chose the right xp to boot from... Strangely it works well

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