Re: Electricity Outage Caused Windows Error (won't Reboot)
- From: philo <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:11:34 -0600
jviren wrote:
An electric outage yesterday caused my Compaq Presario desktop to have problems. It booted REALLLLLLLY slowly and so I rebooted it, but I got an error message: "Disk read error recurred on Start Up. Press Ctl + Alt + Delete..." So I did that over and over and it didn't work. Then I got another error message: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows root.\system 32\hal.dll. Please reinstall a copy of the above file." I found some articles on how to reinsal the file with the XP recovery disks, but I have some questions.
My questions:
1) I have 2 OSs installed (XP Pro and XP Home) because that's how my computer guy did it. Since XP Pro is the default, I'm assuming that is the disk I use. However, I don't think I have those disks, so what can I do?
2) Is it possible that starting in Safe Mode will fix this, instead of recovery disks? I can't seem to get to that page, even though I have pressed F8 when I was able to get to the boot loader page or BIOS page, but it won't work.
3) I have had many issues with the electricity going out and wrecking things on my computer, not to mention killing my fax machine. Last time it happened, Outlook reverted to 2006. I have the computer on a surge protector, which obviously was of no use in this case. I also have it hooked up to a UBS but that doesn't really help me when I am not home when the electricity goes out. And I don't want to turn my computer off, mid-project, just because I'm leaving my home office for a couple of hours. Besides a lightning rod and a standby generator, is there a solution to this so this won't happen again?
Fortunately, my files are backed up by Carbonite, but I would rather get this computer working without reformatting the hard drive, since I have too many projects to take the time to install everything again right now.
Thank you for your help!
Boot up with your XP cd
and from the recovery console run chkdsk /r
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