HAL issue

I was wiping my hard drive at home to get rid of Vista.

I opened my sealed “recovery drive” to perform the wipe.

The process appeared to work. Upon completion I receive the following
error message. “Windows cannot start because the following file is
either missing or corrupt. Windows root/system32/hal.dll”

You wiped the drive and now Vista will not start?

Too funny!

Now, what are you really asking. Your statement is not really clear.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"turtle" <> wrote in message
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I was wiping my hard drive at home to get rid of Vista.

I opened my sealed “recovery drive” to perform the wipe.

The process appeared to work. Upon completion I receive the following
error message. “Windows cannot start because the following file is
either missing or corrupt. Windows root/system32/hal.dll”

Yep, you successfuly wiped the drive.

"turtle" <> wrote in message
news:385f93f1-b682-4640-8eda-...
I was wiping my hard drive at home to get rid of Vista.

I opened my sealed “recovery drive” to perform the wipe.

The process appeared to work. Upon completion I receive the following
error message. “Windows cannot start because the following file is
either missing or corrupt. Windows root/system32/hal.dll”

Recovery drive?
As in recovery partition or recovery DVD?
Usually you have to perform a complete recovery to return the computer to
it's factory issued state.
It sounds like you stopped halfway through the process.

"turtle" <> wrote in message
news:385f93f1-b682-4640-8eda-...
I was wiping my hard drive at home to get rid of Vista.

I opened my sealed “recovery drive” to perform the wipe.

The process appeared to work. Upon completion I receive the following
error message. “Windows cannot start because the following file is
either missing or corrupt. Windows root/system32/hal.dll”