HAL.DLL missing or corrupt?

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.....


"Curt Christianson"
wrote in message
> 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/
>
>
> "***** charles" wrote in message
>
> | 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.....
> |
> |
>
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"***** charles" wrote

> 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 [MVP - User/Shell]
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"Rock" wrote in message

> "***** charles" wrote
>
> > 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 [MVP - User/Shell]

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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