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Hal.dll trouble
Does any one have a cure for the dreaded error of Hal.dll missing or
corrupt. I have a 630I been running fine for a couple of years. Now at random times it will give the error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have the original drive in a second bay not hooked up, swap drives out, copy hal.dll to the faulty drive and same message. The only way I can get it back up and running is to restore a image of the corrupt drive. Any help or information would be appreciated. Sam |
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Hal.dll trouble
did you try to boot from the windows cd
go into repair mode and at the dos prompt type each of these 3 commands bootcfg/rebuild fixboot fixmbr that should do it. Sam wrote: Does any one have a cure for the dreaded error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have a 630I been running fine for a couple of years. Now at random times it will give the error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have the original drive in a second bay not hooked up, swap drives out, copy hal.dll to the faulty drive and same message. The only way I can get it back up and running is to restore a image of the corrupt drive. Any help or information would be appreciated. Sam |
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Hal.dll trouble
"JayB" wrote in message ... did you try to boot from the windows cd go into repair mode and at the dos prompt type each of these 3 commands bootcfg/rebuild fixboot fixmbr that should do it. Sam wrote: Does any one have a cure for the dreaded error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have a 630I been running fine for a couple of years. Now at random times it will give the error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have the original drive in a second bay not hooked up, swap drives out, copy hal.dll to the faulty drive and same message. The only way I can get it back up and running is to restore a image of the corrupt drive. Any help or information would be appreciated. Sam No I didn't know what else to do, the next time it happens I will try that . I was wondering if my drive was starting to go bad, have run test, chkdsk /r. Downloaded WD drive tools and nothing shows up as bad. Thanks, will let you know what happens. Sam |
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Sam,
The hal.dll error is related to boot.ini pointing to an incorrect partition. Tell us about your HDs and partitions. Do you swap HDs around prior to the error? Do you use a boot manager? Could you post the text from your boot.ini? |
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Hal.dll trouble
Sam wrote:
"JayB" wrote in message ... did you try to boot from the windows cd go into repair mode and at the dos prompt type each of these 3 commands bootcfg/rebuild fixboot fixmbr that should do it. Sam wrote: Does any one have a cure for the dreaded error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have a 630I been running fine for a couple of years. Now at random times it will give the error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have the original drive in a second bay not hooked up, swap drives out, copy hal.dll to the faulty drive and same message. The only way I can get it back up and running is to restore a image of the corrupt drive. Any help or information would be appreciated. Sam No I didn't know what else to do, the next time it happens I will try that . I was wondering if my drive was starting to go bad, have run test, chkdsk /r. Downloaded WD drive tools and nothing shows up as bad. Thanks, will let you know what happens. Sam assuming that you are talking xp and have a copy of the original install cd here are good instructions to follow to successfully do a recovery reinstall. it is critical that you follow the directions closely or you may just overwrite your entire system and loose all of your installed programs and data... read them through each step before attempting it. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm |
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Hal.dll trouble
"Brian K" wrote in message nd.com... Sam, The hal.dll error is related to boot.ini pointing to an incorrect partition. Tell us about your HDs and partitions. Do you swap HDs around prior to the error? Do you use a boot manager? Could you post the text from your boot.ini? I cloned the HD when I first got the 630I, it is a WD5000AAKS the same that came in the system. It has 3 partitions, Partition 1 is utility 63 MB, Partition 2 is system and files 462.39 GB, Partition 3 is recovery Partition 3.30 GB. It has run on the cloned HD for the last 2 years fine. Only in the last three months has the error shown up. It may boot or restart a dozen times ok, then next time it will give the error on Hal.dll as being corrupt or missing. I can reinstall the original HD boot up and copy the Hal.dll to the non booting HD and it doesn't help. From that I did not think it was Hal.dll being at fault. I Googled the Hal.dll problem and it seams to be wide spread with no known cure. I would just like to get back to where it would boot ever time when I turn it on or restart it. I do not use a boot manager. I have been restoring my cloned image and that seams to fix it until next time. Was hoping for a simple fix to get away from the error. I intend to try the fix posted by JayB previously next Time it happens. bootcfg.rebuild, fixboot, fixmbr. In that order Here is my boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect Thanks Sam |
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"Christopher Muto" wrote in message t... Sam wrote: "JayB" wrote in message ... did you try to boot from the windows cd go into repair mode and at the dos prompt type each of these 3 commands bootcfg/rebuild fixboot fixmbr that should do it. Sam wrote: Does any one have a cure for the dreaded error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have a 630I been running fine for a couple of years. Now at random times it will give the error of Hal.dll missing or corrupt. I have the original drive in a second bay not hooked up, swap drives out, copy hal.dll to the faulty drive and same message. The only way I can get it back up and running is to restore a image of the corrupt drive. Any help or information would be appreciated. Sam No I didn't know what else to do, the next time it happens I will try that . I was wondering if my drive was starting to go bad, have run test, chkdsk /r. Downloaded WD drive tools and nothing shows up as bad. Thanks, will let you know what happens. Sam assuming that you are talking xp and have a copy of the original install cd here are good instructions to follow to successfully do a recovery reinstall. it is critical that you follow the directions closely or you may just overwrite your entire system and loose all of your installed programs and data... read them through each step before attempting it. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm It is easer for me to a image restore and restore my backup's, that way I am sure that I will have all of my information. Don't want to take a chance of loosing it. Thanks Sam |
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Sam, Thanks for the detailed info. I'd be interested to see your boot.ini when your system is playing up. As I'm sure you would too. I don't know why it is happening. I doubt boot.ini is changing but maybe the partitions are changing order in the partition table. Your boot.ini is referencing partition(2). This means WinXP is the second primary partition in the partition table. Partition(2) does not refer to the physical order of the partition on the HD although WinXP actually is the second physical partition. My Dell has the same partitions as yours but I have made WinXP the first primary partition in the partition table and my boot.ini is now referencing partition(1). WinXP is still the second physical partition. I suggest using BootIt NG when next you have a problem. You will be able to see the order of partitions in the partition table as well as see boot.ini. You can edit either the partition table order or boot.ini to fix your boot issue. For those familiar with BootIt NG, this would take 10 seconds. |
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"Brian K" wrote in message nd.com... Sam, Thanks for the detailed info. I'd be interested to see your boot.ini when your system is playing up. As I'm sure you would too. I don't know why it is happening. I doubt boot.ini is changing but maybe the partitions are changing order in the partition table. Your boot.ini is referencing partition(2). This means WinXP is the second primary partition in the partition table. Partition(2) does not refer to the physical order of the partition on the HD although WinXP actually is the second physical partition. My Dell has the same partitions as yours but I have made WinXP the first primary partition in the partition table and my boot.ini is now referencing partition(1). WinXP is still the second physical partition. I suggest using BootIt NG when next you have a problem. You will be able to see the order of partitions in the partition table as well as see boot.ini. You can edit either the partition table order or boot.ini to fix your boot issue. For those familiar with BootIt NG, this would take 10 seconds. I will download BootIt NG and have a look at it, from what you say I may delete the recovery & restore partition so that I only have one partition on the HD and restore the image and let it write a standard XP MBR to the disk. Thanks Sam |
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Hal.dll trouble
from what you say I may delete the recovery & restore partition so that I only have one partition on the HD and restore the image and let it write a standard XP MBR to the disk. Sam, That is an excellent idea. Then the single partition will always be partition(1) in boot.ini. You may have to edit boot.ini on the first occasion if your imaging app doesn't make the change. Writing a Standard MBR doesn't alter the partition table or the Disk Signature. Just the boot code. |
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