"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: hal.dll"

today i am running my first Mandrake setup ever (first linux ever period)
so far so good except for that minor issue there

I know it has to be corrupt as the file hal.dll is still in the folder on the windows partition

when i tried and replace the file with a downloaded file it said that the file on drive was newer then the one i was going to put in there so i cancelled it

Anyone know what to do here

Linux for me runs on my D: drive
and win xp pro runs on C:

I can boot into Linux just fine

Some help would be greatly appreciated =)

Replace your hal.dll with your downloaded file, sure he was newer but corrupted

So replace it plz :-)

Nah. Boot with the win cd and fix it

I had this problem several times... is XP on an NTFS partition?

If you want an immediate fix, boot to a dos 6.22 or win98 boot disk and type:

FDISK/MBR

or you could run the XP repair process and have it check the boot environment...

and... can anyone explain what is going on here? Can grub sometimes not "hand off" the boot process to an NTFS partition? or am I cold on that???

mickey1... please report back your progress... I'm very interested in understanding this problem...

thnkx

hey guy...try this.

go into your bios. change the WINDOWS hard drive to "LBA". usually can be done from the first BIOS option screen. Then try. I had a problem almost identical to this last week.

Well i'd love to say all went well but it didn't
Now i seriously messed up utterly


i had to reinstall winxp all over again and now i am definately screwed because not only don't i have no boot option i also can't see the partition

=(

it went pretty bad

In Mandrake 10 you have 2 boot options though

you mentioned Grub but i seen LILO and Grub

you can choose?

*bump*

bringing this to top as i need some more help if possible

I fixed my problem

i reinserted the mandrake cd and went to F1 for more options
in there i reinstalled the boot loader

all seems well now on this end and i can succesfully boot into both OS's

thanks for all the help =)