here is another link, http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Shannon Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Re: System Crash Phyllis, Check out the link below, maybe it will help. http://pcsupport.about.com/b/a/225575.htm Debbie _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Re: System Crash I am not going to touch it..I have a tech coming over Sunday and will let him straighten it out..I booted the system and now got a blue screen notice "Windows cannot start because windows root\system32\hal.dll is missing..please re-install the above file"..I have no idea what it is or where to get it..--Phyllis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:05 PM Subject: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Re: System Crash >I wouldn't recommend running FDISK /MBR at this point. > Doing so could cause you to lose all the data on the drive and make > recovery almost impossible. Determine the cause of the problem before > attempting to use a low-level utility like FDISK! > > > --- In [email protected], "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Phyllis, >> >> I looked in vain for hints on what you did to access your files and to >> troubleshoot the drive problem. Can you describe how the machine > booted up >> or the error messages when it failed to do so. I think it is > premature to >> assume that the drive is bad. All sorts of things can keep a drive from >> booting, including damaged boot files. Unless you just want to buy a > new >> drive I would not yet assume that the old drive has it self failed. One >> thing you can try if you have a bootable floppy with fdisk on it. > Boot then >> type fdisk /mbr. That will fix the master boot record. >> >> If you do install in new hard drive you will be able to install the > old one >> as a slave to retrieve your data files. >> >> Jim >> >> >I just had a perfectly good C: drive go belly up with no warning of any >> > kind of problem..I have worked on it yesterday and today and cannot >> > access it enough to get my files moved elsewhere..I have used Aida and >> > all the good av including Windows One Care and can get no where..now I >> > just want to back it up to another drive to save the data until I can >> > get a new C: drive installed which will be about Sunday..I even bought >> > Acronis to do the backup and it couldn't handle it..any suggestions?.. >> > is there such a thing as a system copy from dos, if there is I don't >> > know how to do it..All suggestions really appreciated..--Phyllis >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this > site, please >> > feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post >> > personal issues directly to the group. >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech >> > Yahoo! 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