I bought a secondhand lap top about 1 year ago from a local pawn dealer didn't think at the time about the importance of any discs etc. so all it came with was a bag and charger and I'm now stuck in a boot loop.
When it starts it automatically starts in Win xp Professional edition and shows;
This application has failed to start because winsrv was not found re-installing may fix this problem stop:c000135{unable to locate component}
If I intervene and switch it to boot in xp home (which I thought it was running)the message changes to Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root>\system 32\hal.dll please re-install a copy
An ex flatmate tried to fix it for me but it hasn't worked. My question is is there any way I can download the corrupted file onto my pc and transfer it to the laptop?
Thanks heaps to all.
Edited by cabbagetreeNiki, 28 June 2010 - 08:18 PM.