felipe_olguera Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Please help me im a newbie here sir, i have iMac Dual Core, my XP side gets virus so i reformat it , i have finished the "copying setup file" thing, so my computer restarts, i have to choose window to boot again, then all of a sudden this error appears " hal.dll is missing or corrupted ". Please help me, i need to fix it before my boss comes back. thank in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 It means there is something wrong with your boot.ini file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felipe_olguera Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 thanks for fast reply sir Rammjet, any suggestionis sir. please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 umm how many times did you try the install. I got that sometimes when installing, but my XP disk was also scratched, so ya. also, did you reformat the partition, or did you just try to install over it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felipe_olguera Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 thanks sir sadiekiller , i reformat the XP partition but not the Mac, i re installed XP somany times, i even tried two CDs. please help, if its in the boot.ini please tell me what to change my partition is like this: F:) Partition 200MB G:) Partion (Mac) 160MB C:) Partion (PC) 40MB unpartitioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 http://www.google.com/search?q=hal.dll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felipe_olguera Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 sir rammjet, i used google search already, this is my day 2.i tried every suggestions, i want to ask , if i reformat my Mac, to erase completely,will it erase also the partion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 hmm, did you try telling Bootcamp to make a new partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tried Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 hmmm... try making a boot disk and boot from it. Get a floppy, go to any working windows (home or professional according to what version you're using) and copy the files: NTDETECT NTLDR and Boot files. they should be in your C: drive, make sure you enable hidden files and disable "hide protected operating system files. after that, try and boot off the floppy and hopefully it works.if this still does not work, try copying the ntldr and nt detect files into your c drive (root). then reboot and see if it boot automatically. if this does not work, try looking for those files in the installation cd, its in the i3xx folder. after finding them, paste it in the c drive as usual. finally if this doesn;t work, go to microsoft website for help. search for boot help hope i've been able to help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matemago Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 i had the same problem with an iMac, and it was because the partition table was corrupted. all i did was to erase the partition from Disk Utility, restart, then create again the partition, formated to fat32 and then install again WinXP... within windows installation, i changed it to NTFS. it could a problem with your boot.ini file as said above, specially the partition number windows xp is trying to boot from. but if you delete the partition and create it again, you should not have any problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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