Posted: 12/21/2006 9:17:04 AM EDT
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My boss brought in her daughters laptop for me to restore with the recovery disc supplies by gateway. I did the full format/restore and everytime I try to start the machine i get this message: "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." I had gateway send me a new recovery disc and that still doesn't work. How in the world can I get this working again. Thanks |
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a definate hardware problem. should be kinda obvious ANY time you restore windoz and it still gives you error messages or blue screens its a definate hardware problem. as posted already could be memory could be harddrive, could be more serious. won't know untill you start swapping out parts OR testing them |