HAL.DLL missing or corrupt?

[***** 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.....

 

[Curt Christianson]

Hi Charles,

See if these suggestions here may help:

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

--
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.....
|
|

 

[***** 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.....

 

[Rock]

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.

 

[***** charles]

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....