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by hadjiandbuck
Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:29 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Bad Hard Drive
Replies: 4
Views: 3010

Re: Bad Hard Drive

Thanks Skippman! UPDATE: I went ahead and copied over the entire System32 file from WINXP to the original Windows file..... and it worked. The desktop settings were off but I was able to adjust that and started making sure I could save off anything I hadn't yet on the Maxtor slave drive. I tried to ...
by hadjiandbuck
Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:59 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Bad Hard Drive
Replies: 4
Views: 3010

Re: Bad Hard Drive

Thanks Bubba! Can I leave the secondary drive as is and then have the new hard drive "find it" when I install it and re-install XP? Thanks again!
by hadjiandbuck
Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:07 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: Bad Hard Drive
Replies: 4
Views: 3010

Bad Hard Drive

I'm hoping someone here can help me here. Yesterday I encountered this message: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please reinstall a copy of the above file. I followed the steps on this thread: http://forums.legitreviews.com/ab...