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Had some issue after i tried installing XP pro to a separate partition on a slave drive see HERE that now all sorted

but may have found a separate issue that relates to the last one

on my win XP drive cant now create new partition?, (partition magic) keeps coming back error small clusters or something ill find if important, so i fort id defrage the disk see if that sorts it but on completion it says some movable files cant be moved ? cos in use so i thought OK ill defrage in safe mode (can u actually do this ?)

only this is my new problem cant log in to safe mode ? says "windows root>\system 32\ hall.dll" missing or corrupt

goggled that and found a program called parent logic PC health adviser.exe anyone used this or is there an easier way to replace file don't want to download yet another free app that bombards me with spam adverts excreta

as always any help advise welcome Webb
 
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HAL is pretty vital to your windows machine starting up, it's part of the boot process (after ntoskrnl). To fix it you're going to need to find hal.dll from your windows installation media, boot into recovery mode from said media and copy it over. The easier answer is to just do a repair install from your installation medium because if you don't know what you're doing you'll probably do a lot more harm than good!
 
don't have the windows CD for my XP home premium OS, just a recovery disk that puts a image on my hard drive ...... guessing this wont work but should be able to download just the rescue bits not the hole installation disk anyone know where i can download it as a ISO ?
 

managed to totally loose my windows XP pro again this time moving volume with "Acronis" told me it would move the "MBR" yeah write ....... rebooted with none hologram disk but legal this end,

mended MBR reloaded mended Bootlog still not work

tried loads a programs to mend partition table ..... but most u have to loaded before u make a mess of things :(

in a last ditch attempt before reinstalling i tried the link above from robinbredin and WHAM!!!!! it blooming worked

but my none hologram XP Pro is dell ;)
 
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