Thanks
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I had a similar thing happen to me and it turned out to be a temperature
problem.
I had the new drive in a removable drive bay that was fan cooled...
but the drive was nevertheless getting hotter then hell.
When I took the drive out of the enclosure and just installed it internally
on the frame...
it ran a *lot* cooler and has remained trouble free.
Though temp. may not be a factor for you...I just thought I'd throw that out
there as a possibility.
I agree on the drives but couldn't find 500s in either Segate or WD locally
and didn't want to go smaller. My externals ar WDs.
I must have missed the reference to Seagate in your first post. Check here
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
BTW if Microsoft didn't like the new configuration when running an
authenticity check it wouldn't generate a hal.dll error. It would simply
give you a message that you need to activate.
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I'm sure you have seen this by now:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm
I don't think XP nor Acronis is doing anything if it is working for a short
period of time. Truthfully - it could be bad hardware.
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Well I'd feel the drive to see if it's extremely hot...
also run the manufacturer's diagnostic
and even a RAM test
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I went back in and replaced the Hal.dll because of that end note on the
Shaun Grey post off the Segate link you provided. My memory wasn't as faulty
as I feared. I don't get anything about drivers, the new error screen after
replacing the hal.dll is
"Windows could not start because of an error in the software.
Please report the problem as:
load needed DLLs for kernel
Please contact your support person to report this problem."
There is nothing after the colon on the report the problem as line. The
kernel comment is on the next line.