hal.dll missing/corrupt

Jaredvcxz · 01-20-2009, 06:24 PM

What exactly happened: I installed ubuntu a while ago, but later I downloaded Windows 7 Beta. I tried to install it, but the disk wouldn't load. Believing it was grub(A loader that comes with ubuntu), I looked for way to kill it on the internet. Most of them required XP disk. I got an xp disk and tried to install it, but it was only an upgrade and I needed a '98 disk. I found one and put it in, but apparently it was only a partial backup copy. So, the xp installer froze every time I went to the portion after the first restart, and wouldn't let me go to vista. So, I installed ubuntu in the xp partition, which solved my previous crisis, but somewhere along that timeline hal.dll got lost.

Also, there is no recovery disk for vista, only a partition on my hard drive which may or may not have been corrupted, it's hard to tell right now.

johnf3366 · 01-20-2009, 06:53 PM

Here is a link to where you can read up on this error and make your own assumption.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixthe...torehaldll.htm

Jaredvcxz · 01-21-2009, 09:50 AM

By what it's saying, my hard drive got utterly screwed and now I might need to get a new computer, since It's not supposed to be in Vista and I deleted the xp partition. But grub says that it's the vista loader... But there were two vista loader entries, so I could probably try the second one.

Jaredvcxz · 01-21-2009, 11:08 AM

Ok, I used ubuntu to look at my other partitions, and the C:\ and D:\(Which is recovery) look perfect, but when I tried to install XP, it was another D:\, so do you think that may have messed anything up?

01-20-2009, 06:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jaredvcxz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 3 OS: Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit, Ubuntu	hal.dll missing/corrupt What exactly happened: I installed ubuntu a while ago, but later I downloaded Windows 7 Beta. I tried to install it, but the disk wouldn't load. Believing it was grub(A loader that comes with ubuntu), I looked for way to kill it on the internet. Most of them required XP disk. I got an xp disk and tried to install it, but it was only an upgrade and I needed a '98 disk. I found one and put it in, but apparently it was only a partial backup copy. So, the xp installer froze every time I went to the portion after the first restart, and wouldn't let me go to vista. So, I installed ubuntu in the xp partition, which solved my previous crisis, but somewhere along that timeline hal.dll got lost. Also, there is no recovery disk for vista, only a partition on my hard drive which may or may not have been corrupted, it's hard to tell right now.

01-20-2009, 06:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnf3366 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Hagerstown, MD Posts: 47 OS: xp,vista	Re: hal.dll missing/corrupt Here is a link to where you can read up on this error and make your own assumption. http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixthe...torehaldll.htm

01-21-2009, 09:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
Jaredvcxz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 3 OS: Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit, Ubuntu	Re: hal.dll missing/corrupt By what it's saying, my hard drive got utterly screwed and now I might need to get a new computer, since It's not supposed to be in Vista and I deleted the xp partition. But grub says that it's the vista loader... But there were two vista loader entries, so I could probably try the second one.

01-21-2009, 11:08 AM	#4 (permalink)
Jaredvcxz Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 3 OS: Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit, Ubuntu	Re: hal.dll missing/corrupt Ok, I used ubuntu to look at my other partitions, and the C:\ and D:\(Which is recovery) look perfect, but when I tried to install XP, it was another D:\, so do you think that may have messed anything up?