Archive for August 2nd, 2007

HAL.DLL: a roadblock on the resurrection of a poorly PC

My PC is very poorly at the moment and Windows XP re-installation is the prescribed course of action. However, I have getting errors reporting missing or damaged HAL.DLL at the first reboot of the system during installation. I thought that there might be hard disk confusion and so unplugged all but the Windows boot drive. That [...]