Re: Hard Drive Corruption

On 26 May 2006 08:00:47 -0700, "Mark Petereit"
<Google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My PC is not a home-brew, but it's probably about to be! ;-)

I'm using a Dell Dimension 8200 that's about 3 years old. I moved from
Missouri to South Carolina back in October 2005. Since then, my system
has crashed 3 times, all three times due to some kind of hard drive
corruption.

It's the same scenario every time, everything is working fine, no sign
of anything wrong. I have to shut down my system for some reason
(adding hardware, thunderstorm coming, etc.) When I power back on, it
passes BIOS just fine, then I just get a black screen with a blinking
underline text cursor at the top left (not a mouse cursor).

When I use my emergency boot floppy, I get back the message that
C:\Windows\System32\hal.dll is corrupt. If I rebuild that file, it will
fail on another, and another, ad nauseum. Interestingly enough, other
directories and files seem uneffected. Once I rebuild the boot sector,
reinstall windows and my apps, I can access all of my data just fine.
(And yes, I've run PLENTY of full-system virus scans.)

After the first time it happened, I went out and bought a new hard
drive (I needed a larger one anyway). I made the new hard drive the
master and moved the old hard drive to slave. So this issue has
effected two completely different hard drives, twice on the brand new
drive.


Likely has nothing to do with your hard drive. Do some searching and
you may find the answer. Everything I've seen so far relates to a
messed up boot.ini which can be easily fixed.


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