What is hal.dll ?
Short for Hardware Abstraction Layer, HAL is an operating system programming layer that enables the operating system to operate with a hardware device. hal.dll is the dynamic link library file that implements the functionality of HAL.
When “hal.dll missing or corrupt” message appears, it can be because of damaged or missing hal.dll file. It can also be because of some wrong entries in boot.ini file in case you are using two operating systems on your computer. Also it can be because of improper BIOS entries of the disk drives etc.
Lets have a look on how this can be fixed.
Symptoms:
1. When you start your computer, you receive an error message similar to one of the following:
2. Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\System32\hal.dll
3. Please re-install a copy of the above file.
4. windows_root\System32\hal.dll missing or corrupt:
5. Please re-install a copy of the above file.
6. Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
7. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
