’ve run into this quite a few times especially when I’m cleaning up and uninstalling unused or useless programs in Windows XP. There is only 1 major thing that you need so you’ll be able to fix this – your hard drive connected to a working operating system with internet connection. It doesn’t matter what it is – Windows, Linux, Mac(haven’t tried with this one though). The internet connection is needed for you to copy a hal.dll file from the world wide web. But if the operating system you’re working on is XP, then you’ll just copy the dll file off of the working one.
The file’s location is C:\windows\system32. Paste the working hal.dll file into that folder to replace the corrupted one. Once that’s done, shut down the computer and get it ready to boot up using your hard drive. If there aren’t any hitches, you’ll see a very primitive windows xp desktop. Here is where the internet comes in handy. It will automatically search for drivers online and update them. After that, you’ll be able to customize the desktop settings or any other hardware settings that you had before this problem. Now if you do not have internet, it’s a lot of work. You have to load the drivers using your hardware’s respective CD’s – assuming you kept them.
In my case, I had internet. And I also had a perfectly working Linux Ubuntu 8.04 on another drive and broadband internet. So that after replacing the corrupted hal.dll file, the rest was pretty much automated. Switching and connecting hard drive wasn’t fun especially because I had an old dusty sempron rig. But all in all, it was a valuable learning experience. I very much thank Ubuntu.com for supplying me with the free CD’s to get started in my Linux learning.
http://vness.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/problem-with-haldll-in-win-xp/
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