How to Fix Hal.dll error Messages in Windows 7 & Vista

There are a huge list of Dll errors that throws different  types of irritating messages and may leaves your system in inaccessible state. Whenever, you got in this stage, you have to fix the root of the cause immediately to use Windows anymore. Hal.dll is one of the major dll errors that can severly harm your computer and corrupt your existing hard drive data. Hal.dll error may occurs often in Windows XP, Windows 7 & Vista but the troubleshooting steps are different for XP or Windows 7 & Vista.

If you are using Windows 7 or Vista and see messages like these, you might become beware that something goes wrong and you need to fix it immediately:

• “Windows Could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll”, Please reinstall a copy of the above file.
• “Cannot Find C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll”
• “C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll missing or corrupt” Please reinstall a copy of the above file

Below mentioned steps will help you to find exactly what happen with the system and the possible steps you can follow to remove error messages related to Hal.dll in Windows 7 & Vista:

Booting Sequence: It's possible that someone or you has changed the booting sequence in BIOS settings.  Check & see weather or not your hard drive is set as a primary booting drive and if not then do it. Sometime, this error comes up due to installing a new internal hard drive and plugging it as an external hard drive might be the simplest solution.

Startup Repair: Windows 7 or Vista comes with an inbuilt functionality to self repair. You have to go at advanced startup mode to choose 'startup repair', after which windows will automatically replace the corrupted hal.dll file.

Corrupted Volume Boot Code: A volume boot code is a part of Volume boot record and is used to start the boot loader, which begins the actual loading of the operating system. It becomes the most generic reason of hal.dll error messages when become corrupted or misconfigured. To fix this, follow these steps:

• Go to 'system recovery options' from Windows installation Disc.

Note: Windows 7 or Vista installation disc is necessary to fix volume boot code.

• Open command prompt from system recovery options and run the following command: bootsect /nt60 sys. This command will update volume boot code on the partition used to boot Windows to BOOTMGR.

• After successfully updating the volume boot code, you should see this as a confirmation message:                                                                                                        

C:(\\?Volume{37a450c8-2331-11e0-9019-806e6f6e6963})
Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode
bootcode was successfully updated on all targetted volumes.

•  Restart the system.

Check Hard Drive: In most of the cases, your hard drive may itself causes this error and you need to replace it to easily fix hal.dll error messages.  

Fresh Windows: If none of the above mentioned steps has helped you, then installing a fresh copy of Windows will be the most prominent solution. But this method will wipe all the data from hard drive, so before performing this step, you should seek some better option for recovering formatted data.