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Power outage during bootup:
My brother was booting my computer, when the Main breaker tripped,(to the House). When I restarted It did boot into XP, but was very slow Maybe 15 minutes to get everything on the desktop. So I thought if I did a shut down and a restart it would reset itself. I did not do a restart till the next day, instead of booting I got an error message stating that windows had an Unmountable_boot_Volume. I could not get it to boot into safe mode or last Known good configuration after much wrangling do to my inexperience with computers. I got into the Windows XP installation CD and tried the repair mode.
I got it to fix the Boot Sector file which it said was corrupt, but when I ran the Bootcfg /scan, it would not complete the scan and It would have to be able to complete if I wanted to run the Bootcfg /rebuild command. It said to run Chkdsk, I ran both the chkdsk /p and chkdsk /r. Both stopped at 50% saying I had one or more unrecoverable errors on my hard drive. All the diagnostic lites are green on the back of my computer. when I exited from the Recovery Consule and tried to boot up I got a window that said
Windows could not start because a file was missing \system32\hal.dll .
My corrupted computer(desktop) has XP Home , a Dim 2400 2.6 ghz. while my laptop is (which I am writing this post) is a Latitude C610 P3 1200 ghz. with XP Pro. I have located this file on my laptop C:\windows\system32\HAL.dll ,
Can install this file using the Recovery Console? Will it do anygood or is my hard drive Bad ? If my hard drive is bad do I still install this to try and recover information off my hard drive?
Sincerily
Malron
PS : What an idiot I am for not backing everything up. What a mistake. Man I like to Kick myself in the !!
shesagordie
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Posted March 4th, 2007 19:00
Malron
See if this can help.
Bev.
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Please don't send me questions about your system by DCF Messenger.
Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.- run the Dell diagnostics on that drive, it may be failing.
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Posted March 4th, 2007 20:00
Malron
Use the extended test on the hard drive [read, write and verify], not the co-called express test.
Bev.
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Please don't send me questions about your system by DCF Messenger.
Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.- I Ran the Express test before I Had got your post to run the extended tests. I also ran the Symptom Tree test for Hard drive, among other things .what failed was the "IDE Disk s/n =WD-WMAJC1309778" Confidence Test.I got over 17 Error Codes.Error Code:0F00:1344, Msg: Block136396: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.Error Code:0F00:1340, Msg: Block 164764: Address Mark not found.Error Code:0F00:1344, Msg: Block 203432: Uncorrectable data error or Media is write protected." " " " " 383668 " " " " " " " "" " " " " 614271 "" 880969 "" 902241 "" 902241 "" 990163 "" 990204 "etc...The IDE Disk S/N , Device 'self Test , PassedRead Test : FailedSeek Test PassedSMART Test PassedVerify Test : FailedI ran a memory test and they all PassedI hope you can deduce anything from this because I can't.SincerilyMalron
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Posted March 5th, 2007 01:00
Malron
The hard drive has failed and you need to replace it.
Bev.
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Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.- thankyou for your time and quick responces, I realy am thankful for the information.I kind of figured that was going to be the problem.So I have a couple questions Can I try and pull some info from My Pictures, my documents,etc... using the bad drive as a slave?If I do try and use it as a slave, can it corrupt the new drive I install?What would you recomend as a replacement? It is not under Warranty any more. and I would like to install it myself. I do plan on buying another Dell in the forseeable future.Thanks again shesagordieTrulyMalron
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Posted March 5th, 2007 17:00
Malron
Try to buy either a Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung or Hitachi ATA/IDE/EIDE hard drive. Avoid Maxtor. Check the lenght of the warranty, there's one to five years [Seagate] on hard drives.
How to replace the D-2400 system's hard drive.
Check out your local big box computer stores, sometimes they have good specials on hard drives or try Newegg.
Remember to set the jumpers to "Cable Select".
Regards to recovering data, install the new drive, reinstall XP and after you have fully installed all the updates, then install the old drive as the "Slave" and see if you can transfer the files to the new hard drive. Personally, I would not use a failed drive as a secondary, it could create problems.
Bev
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Posted March 7th, 2007 03:00
You're Welcome. :)
Bev.
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Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.
- Thanks for the suggestions on the hard drive, and the links.As for using the corrupt drive as a secondary, that was not my plan, I just wanted to pull some files off of it. Then I was going to take back out. Thanks again for all your help.SincerilyMalron
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Posted March 4th, 2007 19:00