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11-06-2009, 09:33 PM
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#1 | | Hoping to be a shining knight Name: Phil Soper City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 59  11-06-2009, 09:33 PM
My LOML computer hiccupped and now just says that the window root\system32\hal.dll file needs to be reloaded. Where do I get it and how do I reload it. Thanks for your help. phil | | Views: 195 | |
11-06-2009, 09:37 PM
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Name: RAS City: Pikeville State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 7.00 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
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11-06-2009, 09:38 PM
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Name: Dennis City: Ivan's Corner (Monroe) State: NC County: Union Join Date: Jan 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.69 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
Mine did that 4 weeks ago. Couldn't get it back up. Tried restoring - ended up reinstalling XP - MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!! 
Wiped the hard drive.
Tried off the shelf restore software - wasted $$.
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11-06-2009, 09:42 PM
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#4 | | Treasurer
Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.53 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
From my prior experience, this ends up being more than the hal.dll file being missing. For me, it ended up being bad hardware (motherboard), for you it could be different.
How old is this computer? Do you know how to run chkdsk? | |
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11-06-2009, 10:24 PM
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Name: Bas City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 36 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.96 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
Try Earl's link. If that doesn't work, send me a PM and I'll swing by tomorrow. Just be prepared for bad news...
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11-07-2009, 12:23 AM
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Name: Rob City: Sanford State: NC County: Lee Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 45 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.84 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
The hal file is the hardware access list. Sounds like the hard drive might be going. | |
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11-07-2009, 09:17 AM
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Name: Reggie City: Albemarle State: NC County: Stanly Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.07 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
This is why I subscribed to Carbonite a couple months ago. Anyone else using something similar? 
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11-07-2009, 09:31 AM
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Name: Matthew City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 28 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Wow I didn't even think about North Carolina Woodworker having computer geniuses.
I have a Compaq laptop and it got a black screen and would not fully boot up about 2 years ago. One week later it worked and I got all the info off the hard drive and has had the same problem since. It has been sitting in my closet since.
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11-07-2009, 10:47 AM
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Name: Kevin City: Davidson State: NC County: Cabarrus Join Date: Sep 2008 Age: 33 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 6.14 over 180 days | Re: Hoping to be a shining knight
Hopefully Earl's link will work for you. If it doesn't invest in an USB external drive enclosure that matches your drives dimensions. Take the Drive out of the dead computer and hook it up to a computer that is functional. The other computer should recognize it and allow you to browse the directory structure and move any files that you want to make sure to have a copy of. You then have two options you can either Buy a new HD and reinstall Windows or you can reinstall on the old HD just keep in mind everything will be wiped out.
I also Highly recommend a service such as carbonite. It is important to continue to have backups locally as well but they do and will fail at the wrong time. The nice thing with Carbonite and other services like that, they have invested in the infrastructure to have multiple layers of redundancy so the likely hood of them loosing your data is very very slim.
Let us know if you need any more help. I know there are several of us IT guys out here.
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