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Old 02-07-2010, 21:28   #11
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Re: Missing or Corrupt hal.dll

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey View Post
If I wanted to back everything up to a new disk - could I just take an image of it and apply it to another disc, (and replace hal.dll) - and everything would/should work?
If you clone across to a new disk it will simply carry the fault across. You'll still need to diagnose & fix the broken boot sector/boot.ini/hal.dll

On the plus side, if it IS a failing hard drive at least that should stop further faults developing.
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