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Originally Posted by photon
Yeah it sounds like it could be a flaky hard drive, though usually that shows up when you boot (most newer computers have a system that monitors the health of a hard drive).
Checking the hard drive would be a good step, most manufacturers have software on their sites now that you can download, burn to CD, and boot from and test and format the hard drive, that's what I would probably do at this point. That kind of corruption isn't normal.
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It might be the harddrive but the S.M.A.R.T. system you are referring do doesn't usually corrupt HAL.DLL, but rather gives you a warning at boot or stops the computer from proceeding to access the harddrive anyway. HAL.dll erros are usually caused by the computer crashing or memory corrupting when the computer is going through a vulnerable part of the boot-up process when it's accessing the registry. A power interruption or memory failure then can corrupt the registry...or it could be any other hardware failure in the system at that point. HAL.dll allows Windows to interact with your hardware.