Windows\System32\Hal.dll

lostchris08 · 05-21-2007, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

well it sounds like your system is hosed, do you even have enough drives to take up enough letters to reach H?

Recovery console scans all hard disks for installations, if its not picking up your installation you have either so much corruption its toast or a hardware issue.

haha yeah I actually do have that many drives. dvd burner and external hard drives. well I sure hope it's a hardware issue...

I was researching and I came across the fact that I could put Windows XP on another drive like external or USB and I guess have the C:\ drive as a slave.

Then, when I boot with the external or USB drive I can fix the Windows\System32\Hal.dll on C:\ drive that way. I'm not sure how but maybe run some kind of problem that would fix the registry?

Is this method even plausible? It seems like it would require lots of time and I'd hate to waste it all if it doesn't even make sense

tlarkin · 05-21-2007, 11:05 PM

thats not a good method, if you can install windows on another drive just do so and change the boot order of the drives, then copy whatever data you need to keep all onto one working drive, then wipe and reload.

Put it this way, if your problem is as bad as it sounds I would recommend just starting over. Rebuilding the registry can be a pain, and it can back fire later on.

lostchris08 · 05-21-2007, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

thats not a good method, if you can install windows on another drive just do so and change the boot order of the drives, then copy whatever data you need to keep all onto one working drive, then wipe and reload.

Put it this way, if your problem is as bad as it sounds I would recommend just starting over. Rebuilding the registry can be a pain, and it can back fire later on.

honestly though, I don't need any of the data. I just recently reformatted it. However, if I do install Windows XP on a different drive...

how can I get rid of the..."cannot gain access to the disk containing the partition or free space you chose. setup cannot install windows xp on the this hard disk windows xp" message from the C:\ drive.

tlarkin · 06-04-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by lostchris08

honestly though, I don't need any of the data. I just recently reformatted it. However, if I do install Windows XP on a different drive...

how can I get rid of the..."cannot gain access to the disk containing the partition or free space you chose. setup cannot install windows xp on the this hard disk windows xp" message from the C:\ drive.

wipe it all out if data doesn't matter problem solved

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05-21-2007, 11:05 PM	#12 (permalink)
tlarkin VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 6,082	thats not a good method, if you can install windows on another drive just do so and change the boot order of the drives, then copy whatever data you need to keep all onto one working drive, then wipe and reload. Put it this way, if your problem is as bad as it sounds I would recommend just starting over. Rebuilding the registry can be a pain, and it can back fire later on.