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Patrick Keenan
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Re: missing HAL.DLL - but that's not it - more issues pls help!
"daviddschool" <daviddschool@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> When I plug it in, it tries the AUTOPLAY, so it is recognizing it, and
> it even lists it in the windows explorer (F drive), but when I try to
> access it, it says, no dice, and gives the error.
> You are probably right that it is gone, but I have to think there is a
> way of recovering some of the info on it before I go and reformat...
If the drive is failing, reformatting won't help. It's like putting new
carpet on a rotten floor.
The structure is compromised and needs to be replaced, refinishing it won't
help you; it will fail again, and soon.
Replace the drive, new drives are cheap; where I am, 500 gig drives are
around CDN$70.
Once the new drive is properly installed with the OS and drives, simply
attach the old drive and copy your data over.
HTH
-pk
>
>> > Since the directory info is hosed on the HD, it's not an issue with a
>> > missing
>> > HAL, it's only telling you that as the HD its self is hosed, ie
>> > partition
>> > info is missing on the HD, it's dead, I'm afraid you will have to get a
>> > new
>> > hd, sorry to say, but a good backup program, including cloning your HD
>> > would
>> > have helped greatly.
>>
>> > I not only do backups of data, but also external disk cloning of my
>> > primary
>> > OS HD.
>> > I tell ya, external drives are very affordable these days.
>>
>> > "daviddschool" wrote:
>> > > Lastly before I wait for a response :
>>
>> > > chkdsk does not work. It tells me : use Scandisk instead. I don't
>> > > know what it does this and doesn't even attempt to use the chkdsk on
>> > > the drive.
>
"daviddschool" <daviddschool@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:71cd4344-db98-4e60-b0bc-773e2550e634@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> When I plug it in, it tries the AUTOPLAY, so it is recognizing it, and
> it even lists it in the windows explorer (F drive), but when I try to
> access it, it says, no dice, and gives the error.
> You are probably right that it is gone, but I have to think there is a
> way of recovering some of the info on it before I go and reformat...
If the drive is failing, reformatting won't help. It's like putting new
carpet on a rotten floor.
The structure is compromised and needs to be replaced, refinishing it won't
help you; it will fail again, and soon.
Replace the drive, new drives are cheap; where I am, 500 gig drives are
around CDN$70.
Once the new drive is properly installed with the OS and drives, simply
attach the old drive and copy your data over.
HTH
-pk
>
>> > Since the directory info is hosed on the HD, it's not an issue with a
>> > missing
>> > HAL, it's only telling you that as the HD its self is hosed, ie
>> > partition
>> > info is missing on the HD, it's dead, I'm afraid you will have to get a
>> > new
>> > hd, sorry to say, but a good backup program, including cloning your HD
>> > would
>> > have helped greatly.
>>
>> > I not only do backups of data, but also external disk cloning of my
>> > primary
>> > OS HD.
>> > I tell ya, external drives are very affordable these days.
>>
>> > "daviddschool" wrote:
>> > > Lastly before I wait for a response :
>>
>> > > chkdsk does not work. It tells me : use Scandisk instead. I don't
>> > > know what it does this and doesn't even attempt to use the chkdsk on
>> > > the drive.
>
