HAL.DLL missing or corrupt?

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***** charles

Hi all,

I am on an XP Pro box that just crashed after the lights
flickered. I am getting the HAL.DLL is missing or
corrupt. I put the XPP cd in and rebooted. I went to
KB315241 article and tried to follow it but I don't get
the choices that I should see in Method 2, Step 5.
There is no Repair option, only install on the partition
you want. Can I fix this by choosing the repair by
console method? Any other suggestions? I think I
just need to copy one good version of hal.dll to the
hard drive. I'd like to change the hd as little as
possible to get it to boot.

thanks,
charles.....
 
Hi Charles,

See if these suggestions here may help:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

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Curt
http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/


| Hi all,
|
| I am on an XP Pro box that just crashed after the lights
| flickered. I am getting the HAL.DLL is missing or
| corrupt. I put the XPP cd in and rebooted. I went to
| KB315241 article and tried to follow it but I don't get
| the choices that I should see in Method 2, Step 5.
| There is no Repair option, only install on the partition
| you want. Can I fix this by choosing the repair by
| console method? Any other suggestions? I think I
| just need to copy one good version of hal.dll to the
| hard drive. I'd like to change the hd as little as
| possible to get it to boot.
|
| thanks,
| charles.....
|
|
 
Got to the C: promptf in recovery console.
When I type DIR <enter> I get
An error occured during directory enumeration.
So I guess the c: drive was hosed during the power surge.
My next question is if I do an install to the c: drive, without
formating will I loose all the installed programs/data that is
already there?

Is it possible to fix the c: drive if I take it out of the computer
and put it in another machine say a Windows 2000 Pro
machine and run a file system recovery program against it?

thanks,
charles.....
 
Got to the C: promptf in recovery console.
When I type DIR <enter> I get
An error occured during directory enumeration.
So I guess the c: drive was hosed during the power surge.
My next question is if I do an install to the c: drive, without
formating will I loose all the installed programs/data that is
already there?

If you do a clean install the programs and data will be gone. A repair
install should keep data and programs intact however the worst can always
happen. You should attempt data recovery before reinstalling the OS.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Is it possible to fix the c: drive if I take it out of the computer
and put it in another machine say a Windows 2000 Pro
machine and run a file system recovery program against it?

Yes that is how you should attempt to recover any of the data - in either a
XP or Win2k system. First try to copy the data. If that doesn't work try
data recovery software. If that doesn't work the last option is send the
drive to a data recovery specialist such as:

www.drivesavers.com
www.ontrack.com
https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/

You should always have a full and complete backup of important data. Take
this as a strong push to institute a backup regimen. I recommend using a
drive imaging program such as Acronis True Image (latest version is 10), and
regularly save an image of the drive to external media such as a USB drive.
Redundancy is important so burning a copy to DVD is good in addition to the
USB drive.
 
Rock said:
If you do a clean install the programs and data will be gone. A repair
install should keep data and programs intact however the worst can always
happen. You should attempt data recovery before reinstalling the OS.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html


Yes that is how you should attempt to recover any of the data - in either a
XP or Win2k system. First try to copy the data. If that doesn't work try
data recovery software. If that doesn't work the last option is send the
drive to a data recovery specialist such as:

www.drivesavers.com
www.ontrack.com
https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/

You should always have a full and complete backup of important data. Take
this as a strong push to institute a backup regimen. I recommend using a
drive imaging program such as Acronis True Image (latest version is 10), and
regularly save an image of the drive to external media such as a USB drive.
Redundancy is important so burning a copy to DVD is good in addition to the
USB drive.

All good points. Computer not mine. Just helping a friend. Did some
googling for file system recovery programs, doesn't seem to be any
"free" ones. Local real data recovery company is in North Dallas.
Their minimum is about $400 and it goes up from there depending on
how difficult it is to get the files. They have a 100 clean room. Owner
said forget it just do a clean install.

Can you boot/run True Image from a cd?

later,
charles....
 

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