Windows Vista

[BearDown2]

I have a PC that is not booting and is getting a missing hall.dll error.

The message I am getting is

File: \Windows\System\hal.dll
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: windows failed to load because the HAL is missing or corrupt

Not sure what to do here, I don't have the original recovery disks. I do have a repair disk though and I have tried to do a repair from the boot disk with no luck.
It seems I can't order these recovery disks from the manufacturer anymore either. There is a recovery partition on the hard drive but I can't get to it.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

 

[Jared]

You'll need to reinstall, unfortunately.

 

[BearDown2]

Unfortunately I don't have the original recovery disks.

 

[x BlueRobot]

If that is the case, then you'll need to purchase a Windows Vista installation DVD, however, it would be better to install a newer operating system anyway; Windows Vista is horrible.

Do you have any important data stored on your hard drive?

 

[BearDown2]

If that is the case, then you'll need to purchase a Windows Vista installation DVD, however, it would be better to install a newer operating system anyway; Windows Vista is horrible.

Do you have any important data stored on your hard drive?

Thanks for the reply, I am actually at this very moment installing Windows 7, I have removed files that I need using Hiren's Boot CD. Again, thanks for the reply and the suggestion.

 

[Fred Garvin]

Once you get Windows up and running, do a full error scan on your hard drive with HD Tune. Your symptoms and error code sound like a bad drive.

 

[BearDown2]

Appreciate the reply I will do that once I get a chance, but the system is running fine now on Windows 7. I think this error was non-harware related, it's actually quite common to not be. I think I used Crystal Disk Info on the drive and it showed up as good, your reply is noted though thanks.