corrupt hal.dll after installation

[anonymousT]

So after I installed 8.10 on sda1 (I think) I couldn't boot windows xp sp3 (which is in sda2) as I get the 'corrupt or missing hal.dll' error.
I tried downloading hal.dll from dll-files.com and pasting it onto windows/system and windows/system32, but that doesn't do anything.
And I also tried reading some of the previous corrupt hal.dll cases here, but those seem to be too specific for his/her system.

Please help me kindly :)

this is the output from fdisk -lu


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 19535039 9767488+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 * 19535040 117194174 48829567+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 117194301 209359079 46082389+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 209359080 301507919 46074420 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 126 19535039 9767457 83 Linux


also my boot.ini from the xp partition


[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn