Hi,
I had recently purchase a new maxtor diamondmax 10 SATA 300GB 16MB Cache hdd and also the new creative x-fi sound card. Using the previous bios configuration, the New SATA HDD was auto detected to channel 3 but when it reaches the window loading screen, I was given a missing windows root system file (hal.dll) error, i tried to repair my windows installation but it was not sucessful, I then proceeded to change the harddisk setting such that the new SATA hdd will be the slave to the original SATA harddisk within channel 2.
On top of the 2 SATA harddisk I am also running my 2 older PATA harddisk as well. Could my problem be due to a missconfiguration of my Bios, please advise? Thank you
