hal.dll, please help!

for some reason this file keep getting deleted or corrupted, and wont boot,
I have actually had to install xp 64 on another drive and copy hal.dll to
the other windows install (then it works). it is not on the windows xp 64
OEM cd (using the recovery consol...)

also, what other files are associated with hal.dll?

any information on this one, it is annoying... very annoying

also it seems (since I have duel boot x32 and x64, or tri boot with the
other x64 XP installed, same license same computer different drive, works
fine, I wonder if that is legal...) x32 keeps over writing NTLDR and
NTdetect.com (which results in the error message discussed above
"ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt please reinstall") and / or killing hal.dll
every boot (almost it seems) I spent 7 hours last night in the recovery
consol trying to fix this, I gave up and installed x64 on another drive (I
have 2 raptors so that worked out well, xp x32 is installed on a 40gb ide
drive)

and everything works, but I will have to go back into the recovery consol to
config the boot.ini since it no longer sees xp x32 anymore. oh god this is
getting TEDIOUS!

any help on preventing this in the future, I'll buy you a 6 pack!

thanks!!!
--
Wes Newman
Seismic Data Processor / IT Manager
Kelman Technologies
Denver, CO

John
Tue Oct 04 10:49:18 CDT 2005

Why don't you search the Windows Knowledge base for the Hardware Abstraction
Layer - try troubleshooting or issues. It is probably your best bet if the
file is truly being deleted or corrupted ( you didn't say if it was there ).
Many times it is a boot.ini problem, but you boot after replacing it, so
this is not likely.


"wes40oz" <wes@kelman.com> wrote in message
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> for some reason this file keep getting deleted or corrupted, and wont
> boot,
> I have actually had to install xp 64 on another drive and copy hal.dll to
> the other windows install (then it works). it is not on the windows xp 64
> OEM cd (using the recovery consol...)
>
> also, what other files are associated with hal.dll?
>
> any information on this one, it is annoying... very annoying
>
> also it seems (since I have duel boot x32 and x64, or tri boot with the
> other x64 XP installed, same license same computer different drive, works
> fine, I wonder if that is legal...) x32 keeps over writing NTLDR and
> NTdetect.com (which results in the error message discussed above
> "ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt please reinstall") and / or killing
> hal.dll
> every boot (almost it seems) I spent 7 hours last night in the recovery
> consol trying to fix this, I gave up and installed x64 on another drive (I
> have 2 raptors so that worked out well, xp x32 is installed on a 40gb ide
> drive)
>
> and everything works, but I will have to go back into the recovery consol
> to
> config the boot.ini since it no longer sees xp x32 anymore. oh god this is
> getting TEDIOUS!
>
> any help on preventing this in the future, I'll buy you a 6 pack!
>
> thanks!!!
> --
> Wes Newman
> Seismic Data Processor / IT Manager
> Kelman Technologies
> Denver, CO
>
>