Well lately i've been indulging in a game called planetside. its been crashing every now and then and i usually end up having to restart the computer. Today I was playing the game, when once again, the game crashed. I hit the reset button and left the room and when i came back a few minutes later i noticed that windows had not yet loaded up and was telling me that it has a corrupt hal.dll file.
First let me explain the setup of my drives. I have 2 drives, one 40 gig (master) and one 160 gig (slave split into two partitions).
c:\ the 40 gig and has the windows installation on it along with basic applications.
d:\ the 160 gig but consists of around 140 capacity. contains mostly games, media files and backup
e:\ the partition with 20 gig capacity. contains only video editing files.
edit: i should note all 3 were intially ntfs
anyways first thing i did was i put in the windows cd and booted from the cd. I went to the windows set up page looking to repair the installation and when i got to the part where it usually asks you which installation of windows i want to repair it completely skipped it as if it didnt even recognize an installation of windows on the computer.
So i went online and looked up some solutions and the only ones that i could use were the ones using the recovery console. So i went into the recovery console and used the command expand (cd drive)\i386\hal.dll_c:\windows\system32\hal.dll and it gave me a response to the effect of could not expand file or could not find file or something like that.
Thats when i noticed something peculiar. It had renamed the drive i have windows on to the d: drive. So i went back to the windows install menu and looked at all of the drives and what was previously the d:\ drive was now labeled as the c:\ drive and the c:\ drive labeled as the d:\ drive. All 3 drives were NTFS before the crash and now 2 were ntfs while the e:\ drive was labeled as RAW and unformatted.
So far i've tried the expand command in recovery console. the chkdsk /r command in the recovery console (didnt have an effect to my knowledge). I checked another forum and one guy said he had luck repeatedly running the chkdsk /r command so im doing that once again. i also ran bootcfg /rebuild which resulted in an error (edit: clarifying error, said it was unable to scan disk for windows system due to corrupt file system).
So far i've installed another copy of windows in a separate folder on the d:\ (formerly c:\) drive and used that copy of windows to back up all my important data but from there on I dont really know what to do apart from reformatting the whole thing. I've tried accessing the E:\ drive but it shows up as unformatted or corrupted. Unfortunately im afraid i may have lost some source files from some video projects that i have made if its unrecoverable.
anyways i've looked at alot of solutions regarding this hal.dll and none of them seem to have worked so far. i've found little or no information regarding the drives spontaneously switching names.
First let me explain the setup of my drives. I have 2 drives, one 40 gig (master) and one 160 gig (slave split into two partitions).
c:\ the 40 gig and has the windows installation on it along with basic applications.
d:\ the 160 gig but consists of around 140 capacity. contains mostly games, media files and backup
e:\ the partition with 20 gig capacity. contains only video editing files.
edit: i should note all 3 were intially ntfs
anyways first thing i did was i put in the windows cd and booted from the cd. I went to the windows set up page looking to repair the installation and when i got to the part where it usually asks you which installation of windows i want to repair it completely skipped it as if it didnt even recognize an installation of windows on the computer.
So i went online and looked up some solutions and the only ones that i could use were the ones using the recovery console. So i went into the recovery console and used the command expand (cd drive)\i386\hal.dll_c:\windows\system32\hal.dll and it gave me a response to the effect of could not expand file or could not find file or something like that.
Thats when i noticed something peculiar. It had renamed the drive i have windows on to the d: drive. So i went back to the windows install menu and looked at all of the drives and what was previously the d:\ drive was now labeled as the c:\ drive and the c:\ drive labeled as the d:\ drive. All 3 drives were NTFS before the crash and now 2 were ntfs while the e:\ drive was labeled as RAW and unformatted.
So far i've tried the expand command in recovery console. the chkdsk /r command in the recovery console (didnt have an effect to my knowledge). I checked another forum and one guy said he had luck repeatedly running the chkdsk /r command so im doing that once again. i also ran bootcfg /rebuild which resulted in an error (edit: clarifying error, said it was unable to scan disk for windows system due to corrupt file system).
So far i've installed another copy of windows in a separate folder on the d:\ (formerly c:\) drive and used that copy of windows to back up all my important data but from there on I dont really know what to do apart from reformatting the whole thing. I've tried accessing the E:\ drive but it shows up as unformatted or corrupted. Unfortunately im afraid i may have lost some source files from some video projects that i have made if its unrecoverable.
anyways i've looked at alot of solutions regarding this hal.dll and none of them seem to have worked so far. i've found little or no information regarding the drives spontaneously switching names.
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