Hi folks,
I'm worried. A couple of days ago I tried to install a driver development kit on my Windows XP. The installation went wrong. Windows wouldn't start anymore, DLL FooBar is missing, no recovery mode, no booting in protected mode no nothing. Ok! No problem! That's why we use Norton Ghost. I restored the system drive (C:) from the backup.
Restart Windows. Panic! The HAL.DLL is missing! No start! The world finally has come to its well deserved end!
Time to get serious. Having proceeded through some stages of meditation wich can't be described in detail here, I started the computer from a bootable LINUX DVD. First thing: Copy the whole mess (Drive C:) to an USB drive. On inspection quite a number of executables from <WINDOWS>\system32 where corrupted. Checking the HAL.DLL with command line debug, the starting block was missing. Same thing with dozens of other *.DLL and *.SYS files. No wonder WINDOWS wouldn't start!
Mind: These files were perfectly ok on the C: drive when I made the backup. WINDOWS started just fine all the time after the backup, so the HAL.DLL must have been ok! What has happened here? I use Norton Ghost exactly to avoid such situations. The backup just went fine. When I have an error free backup from a running system, I expect a running system when I restore from that backup.
Zilch. Nothing. An even bigger mess then before.
Using Norton Ghost 09 on Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Can anybody give me a hint what I might have missed?
Regards,
froschlurch