Missing file in XP setup

gardner · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 49

I tried to reinstall XP on a friend's machine two times now, and both times I got this error message during setup: "Cannot Find \Windows\System32\HAL.dll"
I've checked the online dbs, and it looks like HAL stands for "Hardware Abstraction Layer", whatever that is, but this isn't really helping now, is it?

gaspard · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 91

Actually, I've had the exact same problem some time ago. With me, it was due to dynamic drive overlay issues, so as it turns out all I had to do was remove the DDO from the hard drive before installing the OS. I used this tool - http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html, I'm sure there's a similar one for your HDD as well.

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