hp dv9000 and corrupt hal.dll file

Hi.

I am having a few problems here with a dv6000. Firstly I need to point out that the power button on the machine is broken so the only way to start it is by using the quick launch keys and booting into Windows that way.

Ok, so I have been doing some routine work on my brothers machine, however, It was getting quite low on disk space on the C partition. When I originally set up his machine I created a C: and D: partition for his documents.

No problem, I thought and went into Partition Magic with the intention of removing a gig or two from D and relocating to the C partition. Of course though ,it failed and now I have about 2 gig of unpartition space.

Windows now tells me the Hal.dill is missing or corrupt. The funny thing though is that it still boots, it hangs for a few minutes on the error the restarts and boots fine and it only displays the message on a fresh boot, not on a restart.

I ran a chkdsk /p last night, but stupidly didn't run a chkdsk /r so that will be my first task tonight.

From what I have read its quite simple to re copy the hal.dill file but I am worried this may affect using Quick Launch the boot the machine.

It seem obvious that Partition Magic has caused the problem, failing chkdsk not fixing the problem does anyone have any other suggestions.

Regards

Sam

 

Hi Guys,

after doing some reading I am thinking I have done something to the Quick Play partition. Is there an easy way of checking whether its working properly? All I know is the buttons are still working and they power on the machine, but I get the hal.dill error before any of the Quick Play icons have shown.

Thanks in advance.

Sam

 

Hal.dll is located in the system32 folder. Hal.dll error also occurs after you have fixed the bootloader corruption. The most probable cause here is checkdisk.exe which, while fixing the boot loader, might have deleted the file. Use a retail CD/DVD of the same OS you have loaded and repair your PC.

 

Hi Pranalien.

The machine runs xp pro, which was already loaded on the machine. If I run a repair using a different xp CD will that cause issues? Also are you talking about the first repair option when booting from the CD (which I believe uses the recovery console?) or the second one?

I had a look last night and Quick Launch is still there and runs in Windows just fine. Could the fact that I have 2gig of unpartitioned space be causing the problem?

As I noted before the computer still boots. It gives the error message but if I press enter it will boot into Windows. My understanding is that Quick Launch is based on a 'mini version' on xp (Windows PE??) would this not have a hal.dill file aswell?

 

No unless you access the repair your computer feature while booting any XP Pro CD, hal.dll can't be repired.

 

things have gone from bad to worse here.

I fixed the unpartitioned space and then reinstalled the quick play software, but on reboot I got nothing just a blank screen with a cursor.

I tried to do a repair install, but it wouldn't work it gave some message so Im guessing its because it wasn't the original hp install of Windows.

So I tried running the repair CD's and of course my Brother has not looked after them and they are stuffed.

I got no idea what to do now.

Please does anyone have any suggestions? I am pretty much desperate here!


The only thing I can think is to try and copy the damaged disks to new DVD's as they seemed to read ok in my PC? Other then that I guess ill have to attempt to follow one of the guides in here and reinstall from scratch.