Hard drive wont boot, stalls on chkdsk

[chrisdab]

I have a hard drive for my Dell PC that stopped loading windows. The error message says missing hal.dll.

I put this hard drive into another computer and while BIOS detected the hard drive, at first it wasnt showing up in windows. I then did a chkdsk at startup which fixed errors but stalled before it finished. After startup, I can now see the hard drive in My Computer.

The problem is that I cant access My Documents to transfer my files. When I try to open the Documents folder in the problem hard drive, it stalls on me. Chkdsk also stalls when running it from command prompt. Help me fix this so I can safely transfer

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sounds to me like the HD is dying. Chkdsk might have made it worse. Should probably consider data recovery.

One way to determine if the drive is dying, is to run the mfg's diagnostics, the short test should do it. If it fails, the drive is on the way out. Then again, ANY such use of the drive, even to diagnose, may damage it future and prevent proper data-recovery. Then again, it's hard to do worse to a dying drive than to run chkdsk on it.

This is why backups of anything important are so crucial. HDs can fail at any time.

 

[denis280]

VirtualLarry is right you hd is going or gone.