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CheesySnax · February 29th, 2004, 05:45 AM

I'll try to lay this out the best I can, because I have no idea what's going on.

I was using the program fraps (www.fraps.com) to capture video for some games, and one time when I was capturing some videdo of halflife I ran into a problem.. I cant delete one of the videos I created. I cant move it , I cant rename it, I cant delete it, because it's "in use by another program or process etc blah blah blah." Restarting doesnt fix this.

Since the file is rather large (around 4 gigs I would say) I decided I would try running chkdsk /f to see if I could fix a problem with the disk and then try deleting it. Nope. No go.

Chkdsk /f can't be run because the volume is in use by another process.

I can't format.

I tried installing windows... I got so far and then it gave me an error, something like s_____.sys is missing, set up failed, blah blah blah.

One of the more recent times I've booted I recieved a missing hal.dll error... I think it was hal.dll, but I'm not 100% sure.

What is wrong with my drive? Is there a way to wipe it clean? Can this be fixed?

PS:

I'm running a pentium 4 3.0 ghz processor, 1 gig of DDR, 80 gig seagate harddrive, geforce fx 5200, Windows Xp... I can't think of anything else I'd need to include for this.

I've run Norton AV too and it found nothing, I also tried disk clean up.

February 29th, 2004, 05:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
CheesySnax Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 37	harddrive problem I'll try to lay this out the best I can, because I have no idea what's going on. I was using the program fraps (www.fraps.com) to capture video for some games, and one time when I was capturing some videdo of halflife I ran into a problem.. I cant delete one of the videos I created. I cant move it , I cant rename it, I cant delete it, because it's "in use by another program or process etc blah blah blah." Restarting doesnt fix this. Since the file is rather large (around 4 gigs I would say) I decided I would try running chkdsk /f to see if I could fix a problem with the disk and then try deleting it. Nope. No go. Chkdsk /f can't be run because the volume is in use by another process. I can't format. I tried installing windows... I got so far and then it gave me an error, something like s_____.sys is missing, set up failed, blah blah blah. One of the more recent times I've booted I recieved a missing hal.dll error... I think it was hal.dll, but I'm not 100% sure. What is wrong with my drive? Is there a way to wipe it clean? Can this be fixed? PS: I'm running a pentium 4 3.0 ghz processor, 1 gig of DDR, 80 gig seagate harddrive, geforce fx 5200, Windows Xp... I can't think of anything else I'd need to include for this. I've run Norton AV too and it found nothing, I also tried disk clean up. Last edited by CheesySnax : February 29th, 2004 at 05:47 AM.