Please Help! HD Missing & hal.dll started it

[S.Sengupta]

-----Original Message-----
Over a week ago my HD crashed I got another HD and got it
up and running but of course during the time frame that I
was online before I installed my Norton Antivirus and
Firewall, I got a trojan in my "system32.exe" file. Now
of course I tried many of ways to fix it with no luck at
all. I finally was able to get into windows it would pop
up with a windows message stating that the file
system32.exe was missing. But I was happy that it let me
into windows to work around at least for now. But almost
a week later (today) I was messing around then all of a
sudden my system locked up and rebooted on its own. It
came up stating that hal.dll was missing and to press any
key to reboot. So I did that but then it stated it was
missing the boot sector. So now BIOS wont even see the
drive so I cant use the XP recovery option. Please if
anyone can help me with this I would appreciate it very
much. I have disconnected all drives from my PC except
the drive that it wont see and the CD ROM but still no
luck. BIOS is on auto detect as it was in the past but
now it wont see the drive. Please Help!
.

Look here:-
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
with regards,
ssg
pronetworks.org

 

[Mike Moore]

I checked out this site earlier but as I stated I cant
even see the hd now so the xp recovery option wont work
since it cant see the hd.

 

[Malke]

I checked out this site earlier but as I stated I cant
even see the hd now so the xp recovery option wont work
since it cant see the hd.
it

(major snippage)

If your first hard drive died and now your second hard drive has died
(or at least can't be seen in the BIOS), then it's quite possible that
the problem wasn't with the hard drives but with the motherboard. You
are having hardware issues, not XP issues. The best thing for you to do
would be to take your machine to a good local computer repair shop (not
a CompUSA or BestBuy type store) and have them thoroughly check it out
for you.

Malke