I have an NTFS partition with WinXP Pro SP1 2055 that I'm having trouble accessing it's on a triple boot beta box. win98, xp pro FAT32, xp pro NTFS.

I'm able to access win98 and FAT32 Xp Os through the default ms boot loader, i tried several methods of fixing boot.ini. Including boot cfg /rebuild, fix mbr etc, read some knowledgebase articles blah, blah, blah.
Tried using recovery console, it wont accept admin password even though it's the correct pw. duh, prolly karma for making light of an SP2 2082 install gone bad... cough, @ da other spot :lol:

When i choose (NTFS XP Pro) from the boot loader i get the hal.dll error. This happened folllowing next reboot after installing from Windows Update site three Critical Security Updates...
If i was [par'noid] i'd think M$ planted the error message sabotaging for payback of having too many copy's of an OS on a single licence[/par'noid] :)

Currently i'm running erd Commander from the winternals erd slipped sp1 disk trying to see my ntfs install to save some data...

My question is has anyone succesfully replaced a hal.dll file like i'm attempting to do to resolve this to get it back like it was before?

I'm simply renaming the hal.dll in the NTFS OS and copying / pasting the hal.dll from my XP Pro FAT2 OS

replacing the hal.dll file from one os to the other did not work.
ah well ghost to da rescue...

start the funeral music, dude....I have had this happen to me a few times and have NEVER been able to fix it without the "F" word...
Plus, you'll never get a NTFS .dll file to work on FAT32, and vice versa...

You can see if this one helps.

found this on Google; worth a peek!
hXXp://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

thanks guy's...

"F" word now in queue... while i'm looking @kelly's korner.

Not much there that i didn't read earlier but I liked the site and booked it... ;)

Set a restore point from erd from earlier before installing the security updates...
Still got the hal.dll error, swapped the one y'all posted too but that didn't work eiither no surprise there. :) Had to try it though... Guess I'll delete the partition, remake it and install ******* pre sp1 and sit on it til XP Reloaded surfaces.

Thanks for the company wase4711, & war59312
rebound, jizac