hal.dll

When i start lappy he tells me hal.dll is missing/corrupt.
I don't have the windows OS CD for this particular system, and I believe each hal.dll is unique to each system so taking any other one and replacing the file won't work regardless of what the internet says. I have already tried it with the Windows OS disk from some others systems.
Now I don't want to overload you with details, because I am afraid then you won't want to read through it all, but I am going to give you the following information:
I have, however, been able to get windows working by doing the following commands, in that order:
Placing the windows boot disk of another system in the drive.
Booting froms thats disk.
expanding d:\386\hal.dl_
then, bootcfg
then, /rebuild
then, yes
then, Windows XP Media Center Edition
then, /Fastdetect

and I don't totally understand why that worked to get it to boot up as usual, but it did.
however, now I have to do it EVERY TIME i start my system, and, unfortunately, it's kinda annoying for me.
Right now I have gotten by by never shutting down my laptop and always leaving it on on standby mode, except a couple of times in the past when I had to restart for automatic updates (on that note, any way to make auto updates install safely w/o having to restart your compy?). So I'm open to any suggestions.
PLZ HELAP fix hal.dll, or whatever the problem may be?

also, cross posted this, for ur info.

if your laptop is relatively new, you should have a hidden partition with the system restore program, check with the manufacturer if there is (a partition) and how to run it, i think on HP's you have to hit f8 or f10 at boot to access it, save all your stuff to an external hdd and restore the system.

Also if you can find a copy of the same Windows you have (torrent the ISO or whatever), boot up with it and when it finds your copy of Windows ask it to do Windows Repair.

I would be more concerned that your filesystem is corrupted and/or the HDD is damaged/dying. Can you pull the disk out of the system and connect it to another system to do a surface scan and then chkdsk?