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BobTheSlob
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This morning my house lost power and now my dad's computer is fubar.
At first when it rebooted I got an error saying that \SystemRoot\System32\hal.dll was corrupted or missing, so I tried to go to recovery console and replace it, but then when I did
C:\dir
it said "An error occured during directory enumeration"
So this led me to believe that C: itself was corrupted, not just hal.dll, and in the Windows install I saw "Partition1 [Unknown]" and my beliefs were confirmed.
My question is, what EXACTLY went wrong here? Partition table? Some random Windows thing I don't know about? And how can I fix it?
Or, more specifically, if I fix it, will I have to install all of my dad's programs and mail and such again? Because if I have to do all the work again even if I fix it, I'd rather just reformat.
Thanks
At first when it rebooted I got an error saying that \SystemRoot\System32\hal.dll was corrupted or missing, so I tried to go to recovery console and replace it, but then when I did
C:\dir
it said "An error occured during directory enumeration"
So this led me to believe that C: itself was corrupted, not just hal.dll, and in the Windows install I saw "Partition1 [Unknown]" and my beliefs were confirmed.
My question is, what EXACTLY went wrong here? Partition table? Some random Windows thing I don't know about? And how can I fix it?
Or, more specifically, if I fix it, will I have to install all of my dad's programs and mail and such again? Because if I have to do all the work again even if I fix it, I'd rather just reformat.
Thanks