Karen,

This Web site has some options besides reloading Windows. There aare other things 
that cause this message to appear.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm

BW




There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

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On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 8:37 am, karen wrote:

>i have a gateway m520 laptop with windows xp home.  i got the above message yesterday 

>(screen is black) and says "windows could not start because the following file is 

>missing or corrupt:  windows root\system32\hal.dll.  Please re-install a copy of 

>the above file."  tried to reboot in safe mode.  received the same error.  do not 

>have any original disks from manufacturer, as they were lost in a recent move.  
what 

>are my options? i should mention that i am computer illiterate.  thanks in advance 

>for your help and expertise.
 

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