Guest Jnich Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 "Nick Porcino" wrote: > It gets worse! > > Now the system refuses to start up at all, saying that it can't find a > system description file. Joy. The system is offering to let me install a new > OS, which it wants to do on a clean partition. Not good. > > > "J Maddy" wrote: > > > Nick, > > I hope you can find the answer to this. I have the same problem but > > Microsoft support cannot understand what the problem is. I have been to the > > wall with those people. If you can find the answer, let me know. This problem > > exists on Windows Media Center on my machine. therefore, it is a problem on > > many computers. There seems to be some relation to a file called HAL.dll that > > actually causes the failures. I'm lost on how to fix. Maybe someone else will > > see this and help both of us. > > > > > > "Nick Porcino" wrote: > > > > > I can't install about 20 updates to Windows 2000 Professional due to an > > > error, 0x8007F00B. > > > > > > The error appears to mean "Could not locate entry for HAL.DLL in SETUP.LOG > > > to determine type of HAL to update." > > > > > > I don't have a clue how to resolve this issue.
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