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Well, this is REALLY confusing me. I was on my main computer two days ago, and the USB ports stopped working. My mouse included. I read up about it here and I reset my BIOS (CMOS?) as instructed. That created more problems, and now I have the hal.dll error when booting Windows XP. I replaced the hal.dll with the one from my disk, I rebuilt the bootcfg, but nothing. I installed Windows a second time on a different Windows directory, this time using Windows2. Now I have two OS on a single partition, but they dual boot fine (not counting the hal.dll error). I booted into the newly installed Windows and I checked the hard disks. Well, they're really messed up you could say. My usual configuration where it's C:/, D:/, E:/, F:/, etc, are no longer the correct drives. Two of the letters go to the same hard DRIVE, and the rest are mixed up so that what was my C:/ is my F:/.

This I would assume to be a BIOS misconfiguration since I reset it, but I don't know how to fix it. If anyone can give me a tip, it would be appreciated. This is where it gets weird.

After I tried all that, my computer then shutdown randomly while idle. Okay. So I press the start up button on the front of the computer and.. Nothing.

I figured I'd send it to the shop in a couple days when I'm not so lazy. I try to turn it on again today just out of habit, forgetting it doesn't work. It turns on, and I REALIZE that it shouldn't have. Okay. Great. Now I check my other computer in the living room. What? The mouse isn't working.

Oh great.

Yep. The USB ports on my other computer (which I am typing this on) don't work.

What is going on? The two are completely unlinked, and my main computer had no malicious files on it, that is for sure. This one probably has 10 different keyloggers.

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You can reassign your drive letters using Disk Management. Right click My Computer -> Manage -> click on Disk Management. You can right click the drives and select Change Drive Letter and Paths.

More info is needed before venturing into the other areas. Alright my USB problem fixed itself. Sorry, I didn't reset the CMOS. I mean I set the BIOS settings to default and now all my hard drives are mixed up (D: is F:, F: is F:, C: is D: and E: is E:, but nothing is pointing to the C: drive) and I GET the hal.dll error booting into my first Windows installation. The new one I just installed on the same F:/ partition works fine.Quote from: Kevvin on February 06, 2008, 02:49:53 PM
Alright my USB problem fixed itself. Sorry, I didn't reset the CMOS. I mean I set the BIOS settings to default and now all my hard drives are mixed up (D: is F:, F: is F:, C: is D: and E: is E:, but nothing is pointing to the C: drive) and I get the hal.dll error booting into my first Windows installation. The new one I just installed on the same F:/ partition works fine.

To sort this out if that's what you choose we're gonna need alot more info on drives/partitions/OS installs etc. and how it was all setup before it GOES any further...


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