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wierd missing hal.dll problem
Hello,
I run a dual boot of win7 ultimate and xp, each on a seperate physical hard drive. I had the bootmanager conigured properly and never had any issues for months, until just recently. When I try to boot to xp, i get the <windows root>\system 32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt error. I tried to fix it, but couldnt figure it out so i reinstalled a fresh copy of xp. this worked well for a week, and then just now when I tried to boot to xp I got that message again.
I am currently checking the physical hard drive for flaws. I have had no software changes and few updates of late that I could possibly pin the problem on.
Any thoughts as to what might be happening? My first thought is that there is something in windows 7 that is deleting that file. or else it might be the physical drive that xp is instaled on.
Thanks,
Page Russell