OK, before I throw my other puter out the blasted window, I thought I would ask here if anyone can help... I had to perform a restore on my other puter. At the point that I get the message "Windows is loading...Please wait...", the puter thinks, then reboots and I get a... windows cannot load missing ......system32\hal.dll file please reinstall file...or something similar. I then use my recovery console and run a chkdsk /r it says is found and fixed one or more errors. I then exit and try to finish the restore at which point, after the puter tries to load windows again, reboots itself, then I get the message...NTLDR is missing...hit ctrl+alt+del to restart computer. I do this and the message keeps coming with every reboot. :shock: I tried to manually install the missing file by copying to the c: drive from the cd where it is, I also tried to copy it from a floppy that I loaded the NTLDR and NTDETIECT.COM files on but to no avail. :cry: *breathes* Any ideas? or anyway to bypass to get windows to finish loading? Oh, I also have reformatted the hard drive to try a clean restore, still get this result at the end. okay, as Biox knows, I am a bit puter illiterate, so HELP! please. I really don't want to have to buy a new puter and that one is for my business. :cry: