Windows XP forum: hal.dll missing and cant find hard drive !!!!!!

Ways, one of them, a repair install can be a bit dangerous to data on your drive, put your install CD into the drive, reboot and almost immediately press R, now follow the on-screen prompts.

The other is to reboot and go into safe mode, then select the last good configuation start. Back ALL your data up (doc files, e-mails and similar), don't bother with programmes, you can re-install them from disk. Now either delete that spyware and do a repair install or a complete install - this last formats your drive and cleans the disk

Install all the programmes again, then get your firewall in place, update your anti-virus and sypware/malware detectors and re-install ALL of your MS updates - before you install SP2 though, disconnect from the 'net and do a full virus and spyware scan as your machine needs to be clean for SP2.

Now you can re-load your data again.

1) On another computer google hal.dll.
2) Try the Recovery Console, and see if the disk is recognised: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

If this was supposed to make it possible to "recover" computer, it was too good to be true , still need hal.dll so recovery doesn't get stuck.

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/

hal.dll
(step 2 of 3 - info about the file)



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Darrell Lewis

This requires acess to a second computer.
Put a floppy disk in the second computer.
Go to My Computer and right click on 3 1/2 floppy.
Click on format.
Click on Create an MS-DOS start up disk.
Click on Start.
With the disk still in the drive go to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll
Copy this file to the floppy.
Start Notepad
Enter the following 2 lines
@copy a:\hal.dll c:\windows\system32
@exit
Be sure to put a space between 'copy' and 'a' and a space between 'dll' and 'c'
Save as hal.bat on the floppy disk
Reboot the computer with the problem with the floppy disk.
Type hal at the A:\ prompt.
Remove disk and restart.
This has worked for me 3 times in the past.

go into your bios - and set your master boot to your hard drive or Cd/Dvd drive , wichever u want.

or in some cases its called first boot device - again set to your hard drive or whatever , some mobos u can even disable floppy detect.

its easy - check it out , and you'll see what im talking about.

what kind of floppy are u using ?, if u dont mind me asking . as in what program/hardware needs a floppy ?.

if u want , you can copy the floppy to the cd/dvd and then use that cd/dvd on another computer.

it will run just like a floppy .
worse case scenerio is -- browse cd/dvd and then run setup files.

doesnt matter what you name the cd/dvd.

yes follow same instructions as per floppy.

on the other end - if for some reason wacky reason it says u dont have a floppy - use the browse funtion and show it to the cd player // it should reconize the files and then install them.

i wouldnt use maxtor hard drives , notoriously finiky.

i would go buy a cheap western digital and set it up as the main drive and the maxtor as slave . thats prob the best way to save your drive and everything thats on it .

plus you get extra storage .

or do what
csrjohn suggested.