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Restoring HAL.DLL file

I recently restored a copy of a hard drive from a Windows XP machine that for whatever reason was not coming up.I restored to a new hard drive. I used a program called DRIVE IMAGE XML and it "seems" to have completed successfully.When i put the hdd in the computer i got an error that says "WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT: <WINDOWS ROOT>\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL. PLEASE RE-INSTALL A COPY OF THE ABOVE FILE.". Unfortunately neither the customer or myself know if its a WINDOWS XP "HOME" install or XP "PROFESSIONAL". If i restore the HAL.DLL file using a CD that DOES NOT MATCH THE OS will this cause problems? MUST the Windows cd MATCH the OS?
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Thank you ALL for the responses. The knowing if it mattered on WHICH WINDOWS XP(home or pro) was important for me(or so i thought).I happened to use a PRO cd and extracting the HAL from it got the pc to BOOT UP. I could not without it. FROM HERE the other responses helped in editing the BOOT.INI.Thanks to all