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Peter Brown
This week end I updated my Bios, with "MSI live update"
as I have done many times previously.
However this time after the update the PC would not boot
to Windows...giving me the Error message
" <windows_root>system32\hal.dll file missing"
re install this file.
Well I could not mange to do this no matter what I
tried !.As I had no access to "Windows' I had to work in
DOS mode which I am noy very familiar with but following
instructions I found by searching the net I used the
Recovery console and typed in the respective commands to
re install the hal.dll file.
I typed :
F:\i386\hal.dll_c:\windows\system32\hal.dll
And similar variations to try to get it to work but it
was never going to work as I found that I could not
access my "Windows" files as they were all in my RAID
array and the recovey console did not "see" them ..it
would not detect the Raid drives at all when I tried !.
I have anothe HD installed on the "normal ATA IDE sockets
and was able to see this drive and contents OK also my CD
& DVD drives,!.
Does anyone know what I could have done in case it
happens again.
I had a thought that I would install a second copy of
Windows on my other ATA IDE drive and if I had problems
with my RAID windows setup I would boot to the copy and
copy the "lost" files over to the respective Raid drive.
However this didn't wotk either as the second copy of
windows booted Ok but in Explorer it does not recognose
the raid setup ..it does "see" the drive but no contents
and if i try to access it it just says it wants to Format
it.
....
is there a way of fixing these type of problems with my
setup
Thanks
Pete
SYSTEM SPECIFICATION as at 28 February 2004
Windows XP Pro (with all updates)
MSI K8T Neo Motherboard (MS6702 (v1)
ON BOARD AC-97 Realtek SOUND
MOTHERBOARD BIOS VERSION AWARD AWD 1.2
AMD XP 64 BIT 3200 PROCESSOR
ADAPTEC 2940U2W SCSI CONTROLLER CARD
BIOS VERSION ADAPTEC 2.57.2
WESTERN DIGITAL WD1000JB 7200rpm ATA133 100GB HARD DRIVE
RAID SETUP: 0 STRIPPING (for Performance)
WESTERN DIGITAL WD12000 7200rpm SERIAL ATA 120GB HARD
DRIVE
WESTERN DIGITAL WD12000 7200rpm SERIAL ATA 120GB HARD
DRIVE
1G (2x 512 MB) PC3200 DDR CORSAIR MEMORY
ASUS V8170 NVIDIA G-FORCE 4 64MB GRAPHICS CARD
LG 4040B DVD WRITER DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW DVD-RAM
LITON XJ-HD 116S 48Wx24xRW48R CD WRITER-SMART BURN/SMART X
LITEON 48246S DVD ROM
STANDARD 1.4MB FLOPPY DRIVE
MITSUBISHI DIAMOND VIEW DV-172 17 INCH LCD FLAT SCREEN
MONITOR
EPSON PERFECTION 1200 SCSI SCANNER
CANON S820 COLOUR PRINTER
CANON S520 COLOUR PRINTER
AOPEN HX-08 FULL TOWER CASE
DYNALINK V1456VQE-R1 EXTERNAL MODEM
ASPI LAYER 4.17.2
as I have done many times previously.
However this time after the update the PC would not boot
to Windows...giving me the Error message
" <windows_root>system32\hal.dll file missing"
re install this file.
Well I could not mange to do this no matter what I
tried !.As I had no access to "Windows' I had to work in
DOS mode which I am noy very familiar with but following
instructions I found by searching the net I used the
Recovery console and typed in the respective commands to
re install the hal.dll file.
I typed :
F:\i386\hal.dll_c:\windows\system32\hal.dll
And similar variations to try to get it to work but it
was never going to work as I found that I could not
access my "Windows" files as they were all in my RAID
array and the recovey console did not "see" them ..it
would not detect the Raid drives at all when I tried !.
I have anothe HD installed on the "normal ATA IDE sockets
and was able to see this drive and contents OK also my CD
& DVD drives,!.
Does anyone know what I could have done in case it
happens again.
I had a thought that I would install a second copy of
Windows on my other ATA IDE drive and if I had problems
with my RAID windows setup I would boot to the copy and
copy the "lost" files over to the respective Raid drive.
However this didn't wotk either as the second copy of
windows booted Ok but in Explorer it does not recognose
the raid setup ..it does "see" the drive but no contents
and if i try to access it it just says it wants to Format
it.
....
is there a way of fixing these type of problems with my
setup
Thanks
Pete
SYSTEM SPECIFICATION as at 28 February 2004
Windows XP Pro (with all updates)
MSI K8T Neo Motherboard (MS6702 (v1)
ON BOARD AC-97 Realtek SOUND
MOTHERBOARD BIOS VERSION AWARD AWD 1.2
AMD XP 64 BIT 3200 PROCESSOR
ADAPTEC 2940U2W SCSI CONTROLLER CARD
BIOS VERSION ADAPTEC 2.57.2
WESTERN DIGITAL WD1000JB 7200rpm ATA133 100GB HARD DRIVE
RAID SETUP: 0 STRIPPING (for Performance)
WESTERN DIGITAL WD12000 7200rpm SERIAL ATA 120GB HARD
DRIVE
WESTERN DIGITAL WD12000 7200rpm SERIAL ATA 120GB HARD
DRIVE
1G (2x 512 MB) PC3200 DDR CORSAIR MEMORY
ASUS V8170 NVIDIA G-FORCE 4 64MB GRAPHICS CARD
LG 4040B DVD WRITER DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW DVD-RAM
LITON XJ-HD 116S 48Wx24xRW48R CD WRITER-SMART BURN/SMART X
LITEON 48246S DVD ROM
STANDARD 1.4MB FLOPPY DRIVE
MITSUBISHI DIAMOND VIEW DV-172 17 INCH LCD FLAT SCREEN
MONITOR
EPSON PERFECTION 1200 SCSI SCANNER
CANON S820 COLOUR PRINTER
CANON S520 COLOUR PRINTER
AOPEN HX-08 FULL TOWER CASE
DYNALINK V1456VQE-R1 EXTERNAL MODEM
ASPI LAYER 4.17.2