Unusual Computer Problem.... Just been at my mates to do what should have been a reasonably routine job... A file had corrupted, windows would not boot, and the file needed to be replaced (HAL.DLL was the file). Now usually, this is a case of getting a working version of the file, lobbing it on a floppy and then copying it over in the windows recovery console. The hard drive however, denied access to itself. So, step two - put my own hard drive in as the master, and boot off that, copy the file over to the other hard drive....but it was rejecting my hard drive, which is strange cos I have done it loads of times....just went over in a continuous loop. On going back into recovery, i wanted to look at the list of files present on the dodgy hard disk - And it said it was unable to enumerate the list...which is weird and I have never seen an error of that kind. Went to windows installation, and noticed that there was one megabyte in use...I brought it home, put it in my pc and its not even formatted. This is the second time this has heppened, last time the file was config.sys but I was able to repair that easily. So...opinons? I think his hard disk might well be fucked, especially since it's wiped itself for no reason...... But my real question is - why wouldn't the machine boot with my hard drive in? I checked in the bios, and it was recognised.... Like I say, I have not had this happen before. Ideas? Ta.
i had a similar error to that in my (really) old pc, the mobo was fucked and had buggered the hd aswell, unless its a new comp under warranty just get a newun and salvage the decent bits out the old one, if im right that is
the pc i had before this one had booting errors too, but that was under warranty so it got a new hd + mobo and all was sweet lol
when u put your hard disk into that machine, did u remove the other HD completely to see if it picks it up and boots? THEN try re-attached the second chuffed HD as a slave - see what happens. I've have some problems with CDROMs and HD's not working together on same IDE controllers...
Yeah I tried that - I set it to master, by itself, and i'd didnt boot. I then attached the gooshed drive as a slave, and it didn't boot. I then attached it to the master on the controller attached to the cd drive(disconnected it from the cd drive first obviously), and still that didn't work. I ran the maxtor tests, they reported failure. I only seem to get grief off Maxtor drives lol
Not likely, I ran the proper Maxtor utilities on the hard disk and it reported severe failure, I entered the code into the Maxtor site and it said that it was eligible to be replaced.....I think it's fair to assume that it's somewhat buggered lol. Tried two IDE cables, and that didn't help at all. Strange about the Maxtor drives though, I have heard mixed opinions, a similar thing happened to one of my mates, and his drive was a maxtor too. Most likely coincidence mind you, but I prefer Seagate personally.
