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hard drive format/install woes!

1071 Views 8 Replies 4 Participants Last post by steve65, Apr 1, 2004

Cell

Discussion Starter · Mar 30, 2004

my dad recently acquired a virus or something on his computer that caused most of his data to become corrupt. i thought maybe a simple format and install would help solve the problem but i cant get the drive formatted. i took the old hard drive and hooked it into my computer and my computer wouldnt even boot for some reason. basically what i need to know is if there is a way i can format and reinstall. i tried to format it and at the last second it said the format could not be completed. anyone have any suggestions?

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Cell

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 30, 2004

sorry! its a 120gb ibm deskstar formatted to ntfs. i am trying to load in windows xp which is what it previously had

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Cell

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 30, 2004

i tried booting from the cd and installing that way and it just froze. it took forever to load all the files and what not and then it just froze.

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Cell

Discussion Starter · #8 · Apr 1, 2004

i was working on this again last night and i found out what he was talking about was wrong with it. it came up with a missing file upon startup. it was missing system32/hal.dll. it said to replace but how would you go about doing that?

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