Hello. I recently bought a Dell Inspiron E1705 a couple months ago. I used my laptop today and everything worked fine. I updated microsoft at it's website. Then I shut it down and left for a few hours. Now, I can't start windows. I turn the laptop on and it reads: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>/system32/hal.dll. please re-install a copy of the above file.
I have tried to put in my Microsoft cd but it will not read anything. I figured I would ask here before I called some guy in India with dell. Please someone help me.
David
I have tried to put in my Microsoft cd but it will not read anything. I figured I would ask here before I called some guy in India with dell. Please someone help me.
David