James,
If you go to the following link it will tell you how to restore the
missing driver hal.dll.
George
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185301251
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:09:31 -0400
From: "James W. Cooley" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Missing hal.dll
When I turn on my HP Laptop, with Windows XP it says the file hal.dll is
missing and stops. In Win 98 I would have run the emergency startup
disk, and in DOS, I would have copied hal.dll, via a floppy, from another
machine. I am new to XP. How do I do this in XP?
Jim Cooley [log in to unmask]
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