here goes. I was trying to boot up my computer a couple weeks ago, and lo and behold I got an error *mind you it is almost 6 years old* so here goes, I try to do a system recovery *it tells me that hal.dll is missing or dammaged, so I run chkdsk and it locks up at 25% saying that "Primaster hard disk S.M.A.R.T. contains 1 or more unrecoverable problems" now the hard disk may or maynot be bad but all I want to know is is there a way to copy hal.dll to my system files *I have tried the copy command with no luck*so that I can back up my pictures and files or am I screwed?
2007-04-15 12:13:21 · 3 answers · asked by Dave M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Heya, the best way to do this would be to take the drive out, and try to mount that drive in a WORKING computer.
It will then just show up as an additional hard drive in the other computer, you can then find your pictures and copy them to your working computer.
I'm guessing the hard drive is dying out.
If when you mount the drive, and it locks up when trying to access it, it will prove the disk is dying.
A nice solution for this is to put the drive inside a bag with NO MOISTURE in it.. and put it in your freezer for a few hours. No joke.
This will solidify the platters on your hard drive and makes it easier to read while doing your data recovery from the working computer
hope it helps!
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2007-04-15 12:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done it twice but I happen to have more than 1 PC. I just took out the erratic hard drive and put it as SLAVE drive in another PC. I was able to copy all the files. The old hard drives became undetectable/ unreadable after some weeks of use.
2007-04-15 19:24:03 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey wish i knew what to do but sadly i dont but good luck and god bless
2007-04-15 19:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋