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]




			

               The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering
                 our special coffee mugs and mouse pads
              with the PCBUILD logo...  at a great price!!!
             http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml