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There may be an occasion when you boot up your PC that
you receive an error message such as HAL.DLL file is corrupt or missing. In many
cases this can simply be a misconfiguration in the Boot.Ini file and can easily
be corrected by instigating a suitable repair.
1/ Place your Windows XP CD into your CD-ROM and
Reboot your PC
2/ XP's setup program will automatically start and
files will be loaded to memory
3/When you reach the Welcome to Setup screen
choose the Repair option by pressing R
4/
This will start the Recovery console
and the list of Windows installations will appear
5/ As you only have one installation on your PC you
need to press the number which is relevant to your installations location. This,
obviously will typically be 1
6/ Type in your Administrator password. If you are
using Windows XP Home edition the administrator password is blank by default so
simply press Enter
7/Now type bootcfg /list
8/ A list will now appear of all the entries in your
boot.ini file
9/ Next type bootcfg /rebuild
10/ Your boot.ini file should now be repaired
11/ Finally remove your XP CD from the CD-ROM and then
type Exit
12/ Reboot your machine to see if the the
problem has been cured
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