Hey Bret if the weather holds and I make it out I will bring my WindowsXP disk, I believe it is bootable. Also, since you obviously have access to another pc (probably at work) did you manage to get a copy of the corrupted/missing file from another pc? If you did not, I have placed a copy from my pc on my website where you can download it and save it to a cd or floppy so that you can try and copy it over. The file is here... http://www.davidrosso.com/temp/HAL.DLL