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Shai Yallin
Hello all,
New to this group, only came upon it when my problem occured, Will
appreciate any help.
I've had for a while a PC based on a 'generic' 440BX motherboard. When
I bought a 60GB (DeskStar IC35L060AVVA07-0) disk, I found out that my
BIOS has a 32GB limit, and no updates where available.
I then installed it using the OnTrack Disk Manager 2000 that came with
the disk, and proceded to set up a dual boot system of WinME on the
primary partition (C) and Win2K on a logical drive mounted within an
extended partition (D), with the remaining space allocated as a
logical drive for programs & data (E). All 3 where FAT32.
A couple of days ago I got a new machine, and bought a copy of WinXP
Home, intending to install it on the primary partition and later
deleting the 2K partition.
However, after the first phase of the XP setup was complete (the blue
text-mode screen where it copies the file then booting to the GUI),
the HD boots and the says the Windows cannot access <hal.dll> at
%windowsroot%. I've tried to rewrite the overlay using DM, also tried
updating the DM version and rewriting the MBR using DM, no success.
I then installed XP on a blank old drive (20GB) and hooked the
problematic drive as a slave. Surprisingly enough, I am now able to
see the 3 partitions of the drive and the entire file stracture, and
some files are still accessible while others aren't. When trying to
access the files, XP announces "IO Error", when trying the open
"damaged" folders, nothing happens.
I don't want to keep this drive bootable - I intend to format it
completely, I just want to rescue some documents (and as much other
data as possible
from it first.
Again, will appreciate any kind of advice / help.
Cheers,
Shai Yallin
New to this group, only came upon it when my problem occured, Will
appreciate any help.
I've had for a while a PC based on a 'generic' 440BX motherboard. When
I bought a 60GB (DeskStar IC35L060AVVA07-0) disk, I found out that my
BIOS has a 32GB limit, and no updates where available.
I then installed it using the OnTrack Disk Manager 2000 that came with
the disk, and proceded to set up a dual boot system of WinME on the
primary partition (C) and Win2K on a logical drive mounted within an
extended partition (D), with the remaining space allocated as a
logical drive for programs & data (E). All 3 where FAT32.
A couple of days ago I got a new machine, and bought a copy of WinXP
Home, intending to install it on the primary partition and later
deleting the 2K partition.
However, after the first phase of the XP setup was complete (the blue
text-mode screen where it copies the file then booting to the GUI),
the HD boots and the says the Windows cannot access <hal.dll> at
%windowsroot%. I've tried to rewrite the overlay using DM, also tried
updating the DM version and rewriting the MBR using DM, no success.
I then installed XP on a blank old drive (20GB) and hooked the
problematic drive as a slave. Surprisingly enough, I am now able to
see the 3 partitions of the drive and the entire file stracture, and
some files are still accessible while others aren't. When trying to
access the files, XP announces "IO Error", when trying the open
"damaged" folders, nothing happens.
I don't want to keep this drive bootable - I intend to format it
completely, I just want to rescue some documents (and as much other
data as possible
from it first.Again, will appreciate any kind of advice / help.
Cheers,
Shai Yallin