Dear VAIO-users,
Instead of using the VAIO recovery kit, I used True Image to make a back-up of my C-drive. I also made a bootable CD of True Image and of Partition Expert. After doing this, I deleted the (hidden) Recovery Partition and resized the three partions on my HD with Partition Expert.
The result of these actions is a HAL.dll error, which makes it impossible to use my VAIO. Many solutions are offered for this problem on the internet (via Google). But my problem is that I have no Windows recovery CDs and that I have not made a recovery kit with the software on my VAIO (as I thought the True Image back-up would do).
Unfortunately, putting the image of my C-drive (which was made when everything worked fine) back on my VAIO did not end the HAL.dll error. While putting an image back on my C-drive of my desktop has saved me a lot of trouble in the past.
I checked the image of my C-drive and that includes the HAL.dll file. So I guess that the problem is a corrupt and not a missing HAL.dll file. Changing parameters in the BOOT.INI file of my VAIO is mentioned in some forums as a possible solution. The bootable CDs give me still the opportunity to put images back at my VAIO and to change the size and other parameters of my partitions.
I hope that one of you knows how to solve the HAL.dll error.
Thanks in advance for your support!
