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hal.dll missing. Doesn't detect HD
Name: KingAdrock Date: June 7, 2005 at 21:34:41 Pacific OS: WinXP SP2 CPU/Ram: AthlonXP 64 3000 / 1G PC3
Comment:
Short story - PC crashed, got blue screen and memory dump message. When I rebooted it says hal.dll missing or corrupt. Please replace (or something like that). BIOS indicates that there is no primary master IDE drive. I have the WinXP Pro CD and have gotten as far as the recovery console but am afraid to proceed because I don't know exactly what to do. FIXBOOT seems likely but I'm cautious.
If the BIOS does not recognise you have a hard drive then you will not be able to repair the XP Installation!!
You need to find out why the hard drive is not recognized in BIOS first....
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Response Number 2
Name: blackbill Date: June 8, 2005 at 20:00:07 Pacific
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You could try and run fixboot to repair the MBR (master boot record) but it sounds like your partition table is screwed up.
There is a boot disk for free download called ULTIMATE BOOT DISK and it contains a program that will recover lost partitions as well as MBR's
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Response Number 3
Name: A7xbmxer Date: June 9, 2005 at 16:04:46 Pacific
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hey i am missing Hal.dll file to and i was wondering if i can take files from the old os. oh yeah i installed win xp again and dual booted it and i want to get all the old pictures and programs back to atleast long enough to copy them to cd or just transfer them to the new os. or is it possible to download a hal.dll file and then put it back in the file. i heard it wuz and i tryed it but it in the command prompt in the xp recovery and it says it could not find that file or access denied. so is it tru if so how do i do it properly
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