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My computer froze on me, and I had to hit the ol' reset switch. When XP
started
loading again, it came up with a message, "NTLDR is missing or corrupt." I
used
a floppy disk to get around that problem, and then another message came up:
"hal.dll is missing or corrupt." I used the setup disk's recovery console to
replace the apparently corrupted NTLDR and hal.dll with the good ones off the
disk (Yes, I did decompress them), but I still get the same messages; both
seem to be corrupted.
After that, I tried using chkdsk. It said there were unrecoverable errors.
I hooked
the hard disk up to my friend's computer and ran chkdsk on that, and it
found several "attribute errors," which it fixed. I ran it again just to be
sure, and it found
no problems. Then I hooked the disk back up to my computer and got the same
results: both still seemed to be corrupt. I chkdsk'd it using recovery
console and it worked this time, citing that it performed "other" repairs.
It still didn't boot.
Lastly, I tried to do a repair install. Put simply, it didn't work. The
installer
said something was damaged and demanded a reformat.
My backup hard disk also died, and much of my data is encrypted - with the
backup
keys stored on my other dead hard drive. (This made it so I couldn't simply
copy
everything onto my friend's computer.) I can't afford to do a clean
install. I'm
out of ideas. Any suggestions?
started
loading again, it came up with a message, "NTLDR is missing or corrupt." I
used
a floppy disk to get around that problem, and then another message came up:
"hal.dll is missing or corrupt." I used the setup disk's recovery console to
replace the apparently corrupted NTLDR and hal.dll with the good ones off the
disk (Yes, I did decompress them), but I still get the same messages; both
seem to be corrupted.
After that, I tried using chkdsk. It said there were unrecoverable errors.
I hooked
the hard disk up to my friend's computer and ran chkdsk on that, and it
found several "attribute errors," which it fixed. I ran it again just to be
sure, and it found
no problems. Then I hooked the disk back up to my computer and got the same
results: both still seemed to be corrupt. I chkdsk'd it using recovery
console and it worked this time, citing that it performed "other" repairs.
It still didn't boot.
Lastly, I tried to do a repair install. Put simply, it didn't work. The
installer
said something was damaged and demanded a reformat.
My backup hard disk also died, and much of my data is encrypted - with the
backup
keys stored on my other dead hard drive. (This made it so I couldn't simply
copy
everything onto my friend's computer.) I can't afford to do a clean
install. I'm
out of ideas. Any suggestions?