Please Help!! Issue with clean installation of windows xp

Hi, my sister has a Samsung NC10 netbook which I did a clean windows xp when she first got it. Somehow she got virus in it and I try to format her netbook to do a clean installation of windows xp again. However, there is a problem occurred during the installation process which I could not figure out how to fix. Ok here is the problem, I use a usb drive to install windows xp on her netbook. First, I delete the partition and then install windows xp in that partition of C drive. So windows ask to format the drive. After formatting the drive, it starts to copy files and then restarts. After restarting I keep on getting this message "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or currupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file."

I've done many clean installation of windows xp and windows 7 but never seen this type of problem before. Can someone kindly guide me to fix this type of problem? Thank you

 

This error usually occurs when Windows is installed on a different partition to the one specified in the bootl.ini file. Change that to the correct partition and is should work. If not it's somehing similar; the wrong partition specified somewhere in the boot process.