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    Acer Aspire 5672 Help please

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kamikazex, Sep 17, 2007.

  1. kamikazex

    kamikazex Notebook Guru

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    i have an acer aspire 5672 that is about 1.5 years old
    the warranty expired and i've had very few problems with it.
    yesterday while i was playing css my game froze and my computer restarted randomly.
    now when i turn on my comp it gives me the error
    "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
    <windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
    please re-install a copy of the file above

    i have no idea what to do seeing how my acer came with no recovery discs.
    advice appreciated
     
    kamikazex, Sep 17, 2007
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  2. Tgo

    Tgo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Your Acer should have a disc to disc recovery feature, usually its Alt+F10, more than likely you would have to just wipe the drive, as you have no XP discs. If it doesn't work make sure D2D recovery is enabled in the BIOS.
     
    Tgo, Sep 17, 2007
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  3. kamikazex

    kamikazex Notebook Guru

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    dood. i love you lol like seriously thanks man. well i just lost all my data but least my laptop is alive!!!
     
    kamikazex, Sep 17, 2007
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  4. andyasselin

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    i wound suggest you run hatichi hard disk daig on you disk it did,nt lose hal.dll for no reason
     
    andyasselin, Sep 17, 2007
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  5. PRH

    PRH Notebook Consultant

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    i had this problem, and i just needed to do a windows repair with a proper windows CD. another reason it's crap that companies like acer don't give you a windows CD. i had reinstalled with XP Pro a while back.
     
    PRH, Sep 21, 2007
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    In recovery console type chkdsk -r to check for problems.

    After that yes repair that missed file.
     
    SSX4life, Sep 21, 2007
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    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    bigspin, Sep 21, 2007
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  8. gino_lee

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    install CDs are way better than those stupid recovery partitions.
    altho, for most people out there that have never installed windows before, the recovery partitions are made with them in mind.
     
    gino_lee, Sep 22, 2007
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