advent note book recovery infomation help

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hello all please can some one help ive a advent notebook 4213 with the follow error windows root \system32\hal.dll (corrupt or missing). ive tryed to do system restore from outside windows by pressing f8 but the techguys recovery program is not there.

ive phoned them up £1.50 a min ???? and they want £35 for a disc, is there a downloadable one online that i can put onto a flash drive to bring the advent back to life and not.. not line there pockets

reagrds steve