Peter
December 6th 03, 09:18 PM
Hi,
Connect your harddisk as master and boot from the XP CD to
perform Recovery Console. After that, reboot and your OS
should be back.
Kelly's Korner wrote:
HAL.DLL is Missing
Boot from your CD and follow the directions below to start
Recovery Console.
Insert the Setup compact disc (CD) and restart the
computer. If prompted, select any options required to boot
from the CD.
When the text-based part of Setup begins, follow the
prompts; choose the repair or recover option by pressing
R.
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot system, choose
the installation that you need to access from the Recovery
Console.
When prompted, type the Administrator password. (if you
didn't create one try pressing enter).
At the system prompt, type Recovery Console commands; type
help for a list of commands, or help commandname for help
on a specific command.
Most likely you will need to expand the file from the CD.
The command would be expand d:\i386\hal.dl_
c:\windows\system32\hal.dll. Substitute d: for the drive
letter of your CD. Once you have expanded the file
type "exit" to exit the Recovery Console and restart the
computer.
Hope it helps.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>Is it possible for a hard drive to be write protected?
Here's the
>problem......
>
>A 40Gb Maxtor hard
>drive wouldn't boot (HAL.DLL corrupt), so I thought I'd
just change it to a
>slave and use it for data storage. Windows XP detects the
drive and I can
>see all previously existing files on it. I can view/run
all files on the
>drive.
>
>The problem is, it seems as if the drive is protected
from any changes.
>
>If I delete any files, they disappear in Windows, but are
back when I
>reboot.
>If I copy a file to the drive, it appears in windows, but
is gone when I
>reboot.
>Windows reports that it can't format the drive.
>Partition Magic won't delete the partition.
>Windows recovery console will go through the motions of
formatting the
>drive, then report that it has been unsuccessfull.
>
>I've downloaded PowerMax and MaxBlast, no help. PowerMax
took over an hour
>to do it's business (I assume it's like a low level
format) and reported no
>errors. The old files are still there.
>
>Each time I reboot though, windows does a chkdsk on the
drive and reports
>crosslinked files on the drive. When I run CHKDSK through
Windows, it
>sometimes finds more errors, but /F won't fix them.
>
>Seems odd that it seems to be fine while reading /
executing files, but
>writing or making changes won't work.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>.
>
Connect your harddisk as master and boot from the XP CD to
perform Recovery Console. After that, reboot and your OS
should be back.
Kelly's Korner wrote:
HAL.DLL is Missing
Boot from your CD and follow the directions below to start
Recovery Console.
Insert the Setup compact disc (CD) and restart the
computer. If prompted, select any options required to boot
from the CD.
When the text-based part of Setup begins, follow the
prompts; choose the repair or recover option by pressing
R.
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot system, choose
the installation that you need to access from the Recovery
Console.
When prompted, type the Administrator password. (if you
didn't create one try pressing enter).
At the system prompt, type Recovery Console commands; type
help for a list of commands, or help commandname for help
on a specific command.
Most likely you will need to expand the file from the CD.
The command would be expand d:\i386\hal.dl_
c:\windows\system32\hal.dll. Substitute d: for the drive
letter of your CD. Once you have expanded the file
type "exit" to exit the Recovery Console and restart the
computer.
Hope it helps.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>Is it possible for a hard drive to be write protected?
Here's the
>problem......
>
>A 40Gb Maxtor hard
>drive wouldn't boot (HAL.DLL corrupt), so I thought I'd
just change it to a
>slave and use it for data storage. Windows XP detects the
drive and I can
>see all previously existing files on it. I can view/run
all files on the
>drive.
>
>The problem is, it seems as if the drive is protected
from any changes.
>
>If I delete any files, they disappear in Windows, but are
back when I
>reboot.
>If I copy a file to the drive, it appears in windows, but
is gone when I
>reboot.
>Windows reports that it can't format the drive.
>Partition Magic won't delete the partition.
>Windows recovery console will go through the motions of
formatting the
>drive, then report that it has been unsuccessfull.
>
>I've downloaded PowerMax and MaxBlast, no help. PowerMax
took over an hour
>to do it's business (I assume it's like a low level
format) and reported no
>errors. The old files are still there.
>
>Each time I reboot though, windows does a chkdsk on the
drive and reports
>crosslinked files on the drive. When I run CHKDSK through
Windows, it
>sometimes finds more errors, but /F won't fix them.
>
>Seems odd that it seems to be fine while reading /
executing files, but
>writing or making changes won't work.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>.
>