I have a question about Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed:

The HAL error I got would not let me even boot up on that hard drive so I used that drive as a slave and booted from another drive. Using explorer, I still couldn't get into the drive, update the HAL, or retreive any of the hundreds of files there. So I tried to reinstall XP like this posting recommends. XP wants to format my drive obliterating all my files. Is there another way to retreive my files or save the hard drive?

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Not much information to go on.  


When you had the drive in question hooked up as a slave: 
Did the bios recognize it?
Did it show up in disk management?  If so, did it have a drive letter assigned to 
it?
If no drive letter was assigned to it, assign one from within drive management, and 
you should be able to access it.






On Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 1:11 pm, Dave R wrote:
>I have a question about Making 
>Sure the Correct HAL is Installed:

>The HAL error I got would not let me even boot up on that hard drive so I used that 
>drive as a slave and booted from another drive. Using explorer, I still couldn't 
>get into the drive, update the HAL, or retreive any of the hundreds of files there. 
>So I tried to reinstall XP like this posting recommends. XP wants to format my drive 
>obliterating all my files. Is there another way to retreive my files or save the 
>hard drive?

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Thank you for you reply. Yes the computer bios saw the drive and gave it a drive letter D, but it was not accessable. It gave me a error message like can't read from D or something like that. I have used this drive as a slave for months before this. I don't know what the HALL did to this drive to make it unreadable.


On Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 1:46 pm, mojo7819 wrote:

>Not much information to go on.  
>
>
>When you had the drive in question hooked up as a slave: 
>Did the bios recognize it?
>Did it show up in disk management?  If so, did it have a drive letter assigned to 
>it?
>If no drive letter was assigned to it, assign one from within drive management, 
and 
>you should be able to access it.
>
>

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Maybe the master drive you booted up was formatted as FAT32 and the drive with the problem was NTFS coz of the you cannot view it from the explorer. Maybe you can use another NTFS drive to be the Master.


On Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 8:29 am, Dave R wrote:
>Thank you for you reply. Yes the computer bios saw the drive and gave it a drive
>letter D, but it was not accessable. It gave me a error message like can't read from
>D or something like that. I have used this drive as a slave for months before this.
>I don't know what the HALL did to this drive to make it unreadable.
>
>

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