I think that pg_hba.conf is a bit of a red herring, the first line of the log file is probably more important (?): PDT LOG: invalid connection type ""
No pg_hba.conf is where the issue is. From your original post:
2014-10-09 12:59:40 PDT LOG: invalid connection type "" 2014-10-09 12:59:40 PDT CONTEXT: line 1 of configuration file "C:/postgres/pg_hba.conf" 2014-10-09 12:59:40 PDT FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf
Note the CONTEXT line that places the error in pg_hba.conf. Also the next line that shows that pg_hba.conf is not loaded. Somehow you have entered something on the first line that Postgres thinks is a connection specification.
(I changed the file to Unix format anyway, just to rule that out).
