hal.dll missing, NTLDR is missing Please Help.

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tom.m

New Member
Hi, i recently formatted my hard drive to delete a bugged version of vista and re-install windows XP. After i formatted the hard drive everything was deleted and i put it in a separate computer. However after i plugged it in and waited for the windows xp cd to boot up i got an error straight away saying NTLDR is missing. I troubleshooted this and it said to make a boot file for XP which i did.
After makeing the boot file i then turned on the computer and that error didnt show but it said hal.dll is missing.
So confused
Please help.
 
Terry60

Terry60

Telephone Sanitizer (2nd Class)
Staff member
More detail please.
Are you still running Vista ?
If not, why is this in the EasyBCD support forum.
EasyBCD is for Vista/7/8 systems.
Did you install XP on one PC and then move the HDD to another ?
You can't do that. The OS must be installed on the hardware it's expected to run on.
Is your problem that you can't boot from the CD ?
You need to change the BIOS to put CD before HDD in that case.
 
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