hi all, i am new here.
i am looking for some help.
i just updated my computer yesterday, it's windows xp.
i have windows live one care and webroot spysweeper. wich just installed a new version also.
i have the automatic updates.
i usually leave the computer on, well, overnight I don't know what happened.
i get this message

Windowa could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
\system32\hal.dll.

now i can't even get into safe mode.
it keeps coming up to a blue screen that says,
it has shut down to save it from damage.

i am pulling my hair out!!!
if anyone could help i would appreciate it sooo much.
toni

(hp pavilion a1340n)
the hard drive on it went this past summer, i had it under warranty, so i got the drive replace in july.i went to the hp support SITE,
i printed out pages of what to do.
for some reason the thing won't recognize my recovery disks.
i have tried over and over to reboot the *censored* thing.
this comes up after:

non-system disk or disk error

press any key to continue


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Have a look at these two sites here and here..

Good LUCK









i have tried several times, i don't know if my recovery disks were messed up when i got them back from the tech guys after they had installed my new hard drive.

(sorry about the glare)

Do you have 2 CD/DVD drives in that system ? ?
If so try booting with the CD in each of them...
If not in your 2nd last screenshot use the down arrow to highlight the 2nd drive...then hit Page Up to move it to the top of the list ...then hit F10 to "save changes and exit " answer Y and hit Enter.
The machine will automatically re-BOOT.yes, it does have 2,
and i have tried to load in both of them,
for some reason it is not recognizing the disk.
thank you for the reply,
toni

just cause it couldn't hurt to try,
i did the page up thing you said,
but it would not move that one to the top, page up did nothing,
thanks thoughi thought maybe the tech guys put disk 1 in the wrong case,
so i put the other one in,
i tried it in the middle drive,
and it went to the screen to choose recovory or windows media,
i chose the recovory
it acted like it was going to work,
then it just went back to the blue screen. i contacted circuit city,
someone there said it sounded like a corrupt partition?
that i will need to buy new software from hp,
and install windows again, he said my recovery disk must be corrupt.

As long as you are posting pictures, post a picture of the two recovery CDs you have. You need to make sure you are trying the one with the OS on it, and not the applications/drivers.

There is also a shortcut to this, if you can FIND ANY Windows XP cd that you can boot from you can press R and enter the Recovery Console. From there type fixmbr then type fixboot then type bootcfg /repair. After that reboot and see if the system comes back up.Quote from: vettelady on February 04, 2008, 07:29:42 PM

i contacted circuit city,
someone there said it sounded like a corrupt partition?
that i will need to buy new software from hp,
and install windows again, he said my recovery disk must be corrupt.