Hello,
I have a HP laptop. Its about 2.5 years old. It won't boot from hard disk. I get an error about operating system being not able to find hal.dll file. So I tried to boot from the cd that I got from HP. I was able to boot from CD and got to command prompt. I tried to access directories but access was denied and couldn't copy my files.
So I tried to repair/install operating system. Instead of overwriting existing operating system, I installed a new version (I have XP home service pack 2) because I wasn't sure if I will loose my old files or not. So now I am able to boot from hard disk (I see option to select two xp operating system at the time of boot and I have to select second one). When I try to open my files on the computer (my documents), laptop hangs up and then I get a blue screen with memory dump.
All I want to do is to retrieve my files from this computer and then throw it away. But I think some sectors on hard drive are corrupted which is why I am having problem accessing these files.
I tried to find hal.dll file on operating system cd and couldn't find it. I am not able to copy this folder and paste on a USB drive (this is when I get blue screen). If I go into safe mode command prompt, I can go into the my documents directory structure but then I don't have USB drive to copy the files to.
Does anyone have any solution for this? I have another laptop at home. Is there anyway to connect the two and just suck all the files from my corrupt hard disk laptop to good laptop?
