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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP
Shane:
Might have to. Before you do that go ahead and try like you planned, but I think that recovery partition is able to be booted off of. And see if you can bring up the boot menu from the bios instead and see if it has the recovery option.
Shane
backtolife:
I think I'm back to where I started this odyssey. Running the restore application as detailed previously resulted in the machine going through the motion of restoring (though it did not start by re-writing the recovery partition). At reboot, the following message appeared:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
Please reinstall a copy of the above file.
backtolife:
OK, the computer is back. Here's the reference I used to fix the HAL.dll message:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/missinghaldll.htm
I skipped down to #4 and followed the link...
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/repairbootini.htm
The bootcfg /rebuild worked fine. Restarted the computer and it went through the remainder of the Windows setup. Windows starts and runs and the original applications are back as well.
Shane, there was no recovery option in the bios.
Anyway, Boggin & Shane, I'm sorry I wasn't able to fix this by using disk tools but I guess sometimes its more productive to go with a hunch. I'm glad that the recovery partition was intact on the original hard drive. I appreciate the time and information you provided to help me fix this.
BTW, I've ordered a motherboard with an Intel processor to see if those recovery disks I bought will work with it. You may recall I indicated that this series of HP computers came with both AMD & Intel processors. I thought the reason why I couldn't get the recovery disks to work was because the sellers offered only a single set of recovery disks for this series and I think originally HP provided two sets, one for machines with an AMD processor, the other for Intel processors, based on the model computer you had. I'll let you know the outcome.
Boggin:
Well, the Hiren's disk must have fixed something unless it was one of the chkdsks you ran because previously you only had a black screen with Error on it - but glad you've managed to restore it.
Edit - the OEM disks I have for my Toshiba also have AMD and Intel drivers on it and while once it started to install Intel but changed to AMD during a factory reset, as it's supposed to detect what you have installed - so that may not be it.
Now that you have the computer back up and running, clone it again and retry the XP disks on that or clone the other HDD with the new clone and try it on that one.
Shane:
Good to hear you got it working :-)
What made this situation different is the fact that you where trying to keep the system as it was for her. Where as normally we would have just blown away the install and installed a nice fresh copy.
But when you are trying to keep things the way they are for a user it becomes a lot harder, and so we have to find and try what ever we can to get it going.
Which looks like we did. When a system gets broken like that there is normally no direct goto fix as we dont know what was actually broken. All we can do is try the fixes we known, look for new ones, and handle it as it comes. By being able to make a clone image allowed you to do that freely without worrying about the data.
Now that it is fixed and up and running, get her setup on a proper backup to an external drive! lol
Shane
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