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Solve : Can't boot from CD ROM/ hal.DLL not found?

Answer» <html><body><p>Hello,<br/>I'm trying to upgrade my old OS (WIN98 SE) to WIN XP. But my PC does not boot from the CD ROM. I kept XP installation disk in CD drive and restarted it, I changed settings in setup to select CD drive as boot drive but no go. I disabled hard disk booting, then I got error <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/message-25597" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MESSAGE">MESSAGE</a> "no OS found" but it never accessed the CD ROM.<br/><br/>Then I ran WIN98 and from My computer, ran setup.exe for WIN XP from CD drive. After a while, when the PC restarted on its own, it offered two choices (continue with XP setup; cancel XP Set up) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/upon-1440221" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about UPON">UPON</a> selecting "continue XP setup", I get error message "hal.DLL not found" and rebooting occurs......<br/><br/>Can anybody <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/help-239643" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HELP">HELP</a> me with this. Is this a bad idea to upgrade such an old PC or to just throw it away. (Its just 10GB, 550 MHz,128MB HP)<br/>Thanks, PBK.XP is going to be dissapointing at <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/best-390038" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BEST">BEST</a> on that machine...have you considered adding some RAM ? ?<br/>As far as getting it installed i would travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad the Win98SE with CDRom support file and use it to create a bootable floppy.<br/>Boot to the newly <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/created-938398" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CREATED">CREATED</a> floppy and at the A: prompt type R: and hit Enter<br/>At the R: prompt type setup and hit enter and the setup will commence...</p></body></html>


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