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Answer» My problem started with hal.dll being missing or corrupt so it would not boot.
I booted from the Windows XP CD and tried various things in the repair RECOVERY console but none of them worked. (Tried expanding hal.dll, ACCESS denied; tried fixing boot.ini, didn't work; chkdsk froze)
I decided to go for a reinstall and it could not DETECT any previous Windows and then said it could not read my Windows CD when I am 99% sure this CD works perfectly fine. It's a XP SP2 cd and it's the full ORIGINAL VERSION.
At this point I'm assuming that my hard drive is dead and I need a new one, but I would like a second opinion.
Thanks.
Edit: This happened overnight, I was not doing anything to my computer to make it happen.Ok my CD may be an upgrade version, how can I tell by just looking at the CD?
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