rob356 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Well I had decided to install Ubuntu Linux on my old Windows Machine. It went fine, I had made a space for it in my hard drive within windows. Then I went to go back to Windows XP, and it says "Missing file "Hal.DLL" Please reinstall this file. I did some researching and found what to do to fix it.So I went to recovery console, and my admin password didn't work! So I used my "Ultimate Boot CD" and reset the password, and it still didn't work! So I went to go back to Ubuntu, and all I got was the Windows Boot-loader with no Ubuntu option! With much futzing around I got Vista to boot, not XP. That was worthless. But I could add an entry for Ubuntu within Vista. I did that, and it didn't work, won't boot. I am stuck. For those who don't want to read, - How can I fix the "Missing Hall.DLL" if my admin password won't work in recovery console. - If I can't How can I mount the drive on my Mac and get my data from it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 First of all set the XP partition as active. Then go to the XP recovery console from the XP CD and do these commands: fixmbr fixboot C: See if that fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 thing is that my password dosen't work. So I cannot log into Recovery Console. I have even reset it using the Ultimate Boot CD. It still dosen't work. Do you know what could be wrong? Why my password, even blanked, dosen't work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 thing is that my password dosen't work. So I cannot log into Recovery Console. I have even reset it using the Ultimate Boot CD. It still dosen't work. Do you know what could be wrong? Why my password, even blanked, dosen't work? Did you try logging into the "Administrator" account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Thats all it gives me. It says, "please enter the Password for the Administrator account." I enter it, wrong. I even blanked the password and tried that, wrong. I was just going to now repartition, put XP on, get some of my data that I needed, then reformat WHOLE drive and reinstall. After all,that install was sarting to feel "dirty." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 For recovering lost Windows passwords: http://lifehacker.com/software/password-re...e-cd-226996.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 COOL! I had just been reseting the password. I hadn't reformatted yet, so I will try this. THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 You are welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 You are welcome Jeez - I was just going to tell him to reformat the whole drive for MacOS and be done with that M$ {censored}... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Jeez - I was just going to tell him to reformat the whole drive for MacOS and be done with that M$ {censored}... That is always an option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 I don't need to do that. I have an iMac and I use this one plugged into my TV as a gaming computer. It has a WAY better graphics card then the iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Jeez - I was just going to tell him to reformat the whole drive for MacOS and be done with that M$ {censored}... I lost the password that my MacBook Air had. I had to transfer all the {censored} through the root account to my other account. I couldn't reset it, even through sudo passwd. The Mac OS X Install DVD didn't work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Once I forgot the password on my iMac G3 that was running 10.3 Panther at the time, the OS X install DVD did the trick for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I lost the password that my MacBook Air had. I had to transfer all the {censored} through the root account to my other account. I couldn't reset it, even through sudo passwd. The Mac OS X Install DVD didn't work either. That gave me a good chuckle lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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