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hal.dll: What is it and why is my computer half-dead now?

durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
So, long story short: I uninstalled a program and it fucked my computer all to hell and back. I got the Mac partition back up and running, updated to leopard and everything. But the Windows partition, even after a repair attempt and a re-install, just says "hal.dll" is missing and therefore I should stick my dick in my ear.

Any advice on how to address this that isn't "completely destroy your computer and build it back from the ground up"?

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  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    A HAL is the hardware abstraction layer. That's not really going to help you sort out the problem you're having though. :) Apparently the issue with a missing hal.dll is often a problem accessing the boot partition.

    http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

    There they mention incorrect settings in the BOOT.INI related to multi-booting, since you're doing multi-booting I suspect this may be helpful.

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