Re: Thanks Everyone

Craig A. wrote:

To all of you who offered help, Thanks.

I took the hard drive out of my daughter's computer, using the
assumption
it was a HD problem, I then brought it to mine and hooked it up in place
of one of mine. I booted, my computer did not recognize it. So I was sure
it was dead. I then did the OLD method of tapping it smartly to disengage
the spindle, just in case. Rebooted, Nothing.

My last hope was to re install it back in my daugher's IDE versus my
SATA
with Adapter and try booting from the Revovery Cd and do what I did NOT
want to do. Well for whatever reason it booted and went right into
Windows. I have NO CLUE why, I had tried booting a hundred times and kept
getting the error
<windows root>\system32\hal.dll As soon as the critter booted, I ran
CCLEANER, DISK CLEANER and the Uniblue Registry fixer upper. It is now
booting normally and I have Ordered another drive.

Still not sure if it was hardware or not, but am replacing the WD Drive.

Thanks again everyone for al of the help and advice, I printed it all off
and I am saving it. I am relieved I do not have to do the complete format
etc. I am on a slow dial up and it takes FOREVER to just do the Windows
updates.

You're welcome, even if you did not follow the advice you were given. Had
you done that, you would have been back in business in around 5 minutes.

BTW, using a registry cleaner such as Uniblue is a recipe for disaster.

http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 - registry cleaner thread

"Smartly tapping" a hard drive has not been supported or necessary for
many, many years. Your daughter really should take her computer to a
professional next time.

EOT for me.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!
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