BioTechguy
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I confess my ignorance caused the problem. Using Windows Process Manager; I killed an active process that I thought had been hijacked by spam or ???. The impact was my system died, and when I try to start it again I get "system 32\Hal.dll is corrupt or missing, reinstall the instruction ... Even though I set the BIOS to boot from the CD first; I can't move forward. My current plan is to pull the hard drive (Samsung HD161HJ) and make it a slave on my Sony System, copy the missing code on the the "slave drive". First, I don't know if this will work, second the Samsung drive does not have the same pin configuration as the Seagate ST#160021A drive in my Sony. Its not clear to me what I need to do to set the Samsung up as a slave. Both the Sony and the Dell are running XP serv pack 2 (and there is an Acronis 9 image on the samsung - just cant get it to load). HELP !!!
BioTech guy
BioTech guy