Terrified of new drive

dwgdwg · 11-06-2009, 11:26 AM

My 160G hard drive blue screened me one time. It has many errors apparently.
I have installed a new 320G drive which is working fine in parrallel with the old drive.
I bought O&O software which clones my old 160G drive onto my new 320G drive. It asks if I want the new clone to be bootable, I reply yes and it appears so in my computer.
On my old drive Partition "C" has the O/S and is marked as "system", Partition "E" is the recovery partition.
On my new drive Partition "G" has the O/S and is marked as active Partition "K" is the recovery partition.

When I ask the pc to boot from the new drive I get an error stating the HAL.dll is missing or corrupt. The HAL file is in G / windows/system32 as should be and is an exact copy of c/windows/system32.
I suspect it is just a matter of telling the pc where HAL.dll is but I don't know how. Any ideas?
I haven't lost anything, I don't want to get to a stage where I can't boot at all as everything works just now just not booting with the new drive.

aurelius2000 · 11-06-2009, 11:31 AM

Me personally i would repair the old "C" partition. Do a clone and then see what happens. Use the repair from the Operating Systems Repair.

dwgdwg · 11-06-2009, 11:55 AM

I don't know that there is much to repair on the old drive. There were bad sectors which were skipped but the HAL.ddl works fine when booting.
I would like the new drive for the extra space.
Can't help thinking it is a matter of making the new drive the "C" drive which I can do but I'mm afraid I'll snooker myself and not boot at all.

**raptor_pa** · 11-06-2009, 11:58 AM

If you want to boot from the new drive, remove the old and replace with the new, should be found now as c. Once you know that is working, shut down, put the old drive in and format

dwgdwg · 11-06-2009, 12:11 PM

Yeah, that was my plan but I couldn't boot.
HAL.dll not found.
It is there and it is a much copied version of the HAL.dll which boots on the old disk no problem. ???????????

dwgdwg · 11-08-2009, 10:17 AM

Solution, sort of.
I can boot with my new drive but if I add the recovery partition it still comes up HALL.dll missing or corrupt.
It's looking for HAL in the recovery partition.
The new drive is in and working fine, the recovery partition has been cloned to an external drive.
I would like however to add the recovery partition to my new drive without causing the boot fail.

Any suggestions?

11-06-2009, 11:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
dwgdwg Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4 OS: xp home	Terrified of new drive My 160G hard drive blue screened me one time. It has many errors apparently. I have installed a new 320G drive which is working fine in parrallel with the old drive. I bought O&O software which clones my old 160G drive onto my new 320G drive. It asks if I want the new clone to be bootable, I reply yes and it appears so in my computer. On my old drive Partition "C" has the O/S and is marked as "system", Partition "E" is the recovery partition. On my new drive Partition "G" has the O/S and is marked as active Partition "K" is the recovery partition. When I ask the pc to boot from the new drive I get an error stating the HAL.dll is missing or corrupt. The HAL file is in G / windows/system32 as should be and is an exact copy of c/windows/system32. I suspect it is just a matter of telling the pc where HAL.dll is but I don't know how. Any ideas? I haven't lost anything, I don't want to get to a stage where I can't boot at all as everything works just now just not booting with the new drive.

11-06-2009, 11:31 AM	#2 (permalink)
aurelius2000 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 199 OS: Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista SP2	Re: Terrified of new drive Me personally i would repair the old "C" partition. Do a clone and then see what happens. Use the repair from the Operating Systems Repair.

11-06-2009, 11:55 AM	#3 (permalink)
dwgdwg Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4 OS: xp home	Re: Terrified of new drive I don't know that there is much to repair on the old drive. There were bad sectors which were skipped but the HAL.ddl works fine when booting. I would like the new drive for the extra space. Can't help thinking it is a matter of making the new drive the "C" drive which I can do but I'mm afraid I'll snooker myself and not boot at all.

11-06-2009, 11:58 AM	#4 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,848 OS: XP	Re: Terrified of new drive If you want to boot from the new drive, remove the old and replace with the new, should be found now as c. Once you know that is working, shut down, put the old drive in and format __________________

11-06-2009, 12:11 PM	#5 (permalink)
dwgdwg Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4 OS: xp home	Re: Terrified of new drive Yeah, that was my plan but I couldn't boot. HAL.dll not found. It is there and it is a much copied version of the HAL.dll which boots on the old disk no problem. ???????????

11-08-2009, 10:17 AM	#6 (permalink)
dwgdwg Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4 OS: xp home	Re: Terrified of new drive Solution, sort of. I can boot with my new drive but if I add the recovery partition it still comes up HALL.dll missing or corrupt. It's looking for HAL in the recovery partition. The new drive is in and working fine, the recovery partition has been cloned to an external drive. I would like however to add the recovery partition to my new drive without causing the boot fail. Any suggestions?