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Which Windows OS is supposed to be on it?<br />
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If you can find a similar OS on a working PC search and copy the file onto a Floppy disk.<br />
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Boot the PC being fixed to Command Prompt and copy over the missing file
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Which Windows OS is supposed to be on it?

If you can find a similar OS on a working PC search and copy the file onto a Floppy disk.

Boot the PC being fixed to Command Prompt and copy over the missing file

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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477</a><br />
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Does those solutions do any good?
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477]

Does those solutions do any good?

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Alternatively, some other help:<br />
<a href="http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal" rel="ugc">http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal</a><br />
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<a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm" rel="ugc">http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm</a>
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Alternatively, some other help:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm [http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm]

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal [http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm [http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm]

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It keeps asking me for an administrator password when I try to boot from xp pro and repair.
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It keeps asking me for an administrator password when I try to boot from xp pro and repair.

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Try using ERD Commander:<br />
<a href="http://www.fullandfree.info/software/erd-commander-2005/" rel="ugc">http://www.fullandfree.info/software/erd-commander-2005/</a><br />

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Try using ERD Commander:
http://www.fullandfree.info/software/erd-commander-2005/ [http://www.fullandfree.info/software/erd-commander-2005/]


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It won't ask for a password for a repair install, what you are doing is trying to enter recovery console. Don't select this first repair option, proceed as if for a new install and when it searches for previous installations and finds the current XP Pro, take the option to repair this.<br />
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Chris B
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It won't ask for a password for a repair install, what you are doing is trying to enter recovery console. Don't select this first repair option, proceed as if for a new install and when it searches for previous installations and finds the current XP Pro, take the option to repair this.

Chris B

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I'm trying to fix a used computer.When I boot up it has this message<br />
&quot;&lt;windows root&gt;\system32\hal.dll.<br />
Please reinstall acopy of the above file<br />
Thats as far as I can go. Appreciate any help.
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I'm trying to fix a used computer.When I boot up it has this message
"<windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please reinstall acopy of the above file
Thats as far as I can go. Appreciate any help.

used computer

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