Re: How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears. HAL.DLL ?


"x-eyed-bear" <gladly528.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pegasus (MVP) wrote:


I suggest you take one step at a time.
1. Disconnect your SATA disks.
2. Connect your two IDE disks.
3. Get the system up and running.
4. Run diskmgmt.msc and find out which partition is marked
active. It should be the single partition on the 60 GByte disk.
5. Shut down the system and disconnect the 40 GByte disk.
Do not uninstall or disable anything. Can you still boot?
6. If you can, reboot with your SATA disks connected.
The results might be revealing.


After booting with the signal cables to the SATA drives unplugged (btw,
they are not very secure are they?), the disk management plug in on the
management console shows that neother drive is marked as 'Active'. The C
drive status is marked as 'Healthy(system); the D drive status is marked
as 'Healthy'

Disconnecting the D drive (40 Gb) prevents the system from booting, with
the usual error message about HAL.DLL being missing or corrupt, as
previously reported.

Shutting down, reconnecting the SATA drives, but not the D drive, also
results in a boot failure.

I also note that a few hours after getting the system working with both
SATA drives and both IDE drives installed, that the system performance
is now appalling. Booting takes 9 minutes. It takes 5 minutes for the
task manager to display its screens. The mouse pointer cannot keep up
with the mouse movement (I have an Athlon 3700 processor with 2 GB of
DDR RAM). A copy of a 120 Mb file from the D drive to the RAID array now
takes about 15 minutes. Shut down takes about 6 minutes. This
performance reminds me of the 386/25 I used to have in 1985..... (with
the exception that it would have been pretty damned difficult to create
a 120 Mb file back then!)



Use diskmgmt.msc to mark your boot partition active, then rerun
the tests.


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