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

Hi, I have two serial ATA hard drives 250GB each, installed on an Intel 925X Extreme family chipset that support RAID, and running Windows XP Pro SP-2. I used the Intel ROM RAID to mirror the two drives. Everything went ok until I run "MS Disk cleanup" (selecting everything in the wizard) that deleted literally all files (that’s more than 80GB). Now I tweaked the three files of "MS Logical Disk Manager", so I successfully managed to mirror the two hard drives that mentioned earlier under Windows XP Pro SP-2. The problem is that when I try to boot from the second mirrored hard disk I receive the error that says that the file hal.dll is missing. Can anybody please help me in this? Because I don't want to go back to Intel ROM RAID (it seems it is incompatible with some of the Windows components). Thanks

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OK.. I don't exactly follow what you were doing (and I do work with RAID systems) but I can tell you that this particular problem has nothing to do with what HAL was installed. Obviously the mirrored drive was not an exact image and therefore won't boot. You are saying mirrored as opposed to striped correct?? You can try a repair install on it if you have set everything properly in the BIOS, (and the drive if need be) to boot from it. I suspect you have more serious problems though if you deleted that much data. Your error indicates any number of problems from missing boot files to data corruption in those files and the registry, to a damaged boot sector(s)/record. Either way, a repair install is what we would recommend now IME (in my experience).. Good Luck!


On Monday, November 15, 2004 at 9:19 am, Kusaimi wrote:
>I have a question about Making
>Sure the Correct HAL is Installed:

>
>
>Hi,
>I have two serial ATA hard drives 250GB each, installed on an Intel 925X Extreme
>family chipset that support RAID, and running Windows XP Pro SP-2. I used the Intel
>ROM RAID to mirror the two drives. Everything went ok until I run "MS Disk cleanup"
>(selecting everything in the wizard) that deleted literally all files (that’s more
>than 80GB). Now I tweaked the three files of "MS Logical Disk Manager", so I successfully
>managed to mirror the two hard drives that mentioned earlier under Windows XP Pro
>SP-2.
>
>The problem is that when I try to boot from the second mirrored hard disk I receive
>the error that says that the file hal.dll is missing.
>
>Can anybody please help me in this? Because I don't want to go back to Intel ROM
>RAID (it seems it is incompatible with some of the Windows components).
>
>Thanks

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