1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted January 17, 2007 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Guys, I am trying to recover from the error "hal.dll is either missing or corrupt". this prevents the laptop from booting. after doing some reasearch on the net i have been able to get into the recovery console. a common piece of advice was run chkdsk / r. i have tried this but it has been stuck on 1% fo hours now, something is obviously not working. should i / can i switch off or should i leave it. any advice / pointers please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 17, 2007 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Aborting check disk will not cause damage, however it needs to be run. Sounds like your disk has suffered physical failure, and will need to be replaced. There are several utilities that can be used to recover data if the disk is readable. Knoppix is pretty good, but the other distros also have live CDs. As this is an XP laptop I will assume it is ntfs formatted, so you won't be able to read from a dos boot disk. Knoppix will mount the disk, if readable, and should also be able to get the network up and running for file transfer. Alternatively Knoppix can read and write to USB drives, easier if they are plugged in when you boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted January 17, 2007 Author 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 UPDATE it has now clicked over to 2% so it is oing something. i am going to leave it running overnight and see what happens in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted January 18, 2007 Author 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 UPDATE i left it running over night and it failed at 25% with the message "the drive has 1 or more un-recoverable errors" bootcfg /rebuild also failed to start because of a similar error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 18, 2007 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 UPDATE i left it running over night and it failed at 25% with the message "the drive has 1 or more un-recoverable errors" bootcfg /rebuild also failed to start because of a similar error. New drive time, and a chance to experiment with Knoppix if you need to recover any data... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBloke Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 If you are struggling to get a hold of it I have plenty of different versions I can post out to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted January 18, 2007 Author 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 ok, thanks for the pointers guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenPark Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Frior, shouldn't you just be able to get some help from above? Why bother asking us mere mortals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted January 18, 2007 Author 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Following a rather disturbing incident with Sister Agneta, 2 Choir boys and an unusualy shaped crucifix (well thats what she it was) lines "upstairs" are engaged at the moment. Anyway, as far as computers are concerned, I consider Bbloke and B16ENK more than just mere mortals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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