re: missing files SOLUTION
Saturday, April 3, 2004 at 3:05 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Don Ramsey
(1 messages posted)
When trying to burn my WinXP .ISO image using Nero Burning Rom, I could not tell
Nero to use the DOS CD format instead of ISO9660 CD format. Instead I burned the
ISO9660 CD and then copied the files from it back to my hard drive in a scratch dir.
I then burned the files from that dir back to another CD and was then able to specify
to use the DOS CD-R format. Note that Luis Perez is correct, the files that are
not being found all have characters (- and ~) that are different in the ISO9660 character
set than in the DOS character set (different hex code). If you do a dir cmd of the
I386 directory on the ISO9660 CD the missing files will appear correct on the screen
but the different hex codes for the - and ~ chrs will cause the files not to be found
during the install. Also note that the file names all need to end in the standard
Window's underscore character (_) -- not the real file name character. This means
the file names want to be like ".in_", not ".inf". There is some mention in this
message thread of using a batch file to rename the files -- this is a red herring
-- the file names are fine as they are, the problem is the ISO9660 character codes.
Using the DOS CD-R format fixes the problem just fine. Ironically, eventually I
ended up just copying the entire WinXP CD to a scratch 2gig hard drive and installing
from it instead using "winnt /s:D:\I386" because the copying of the files from the
CD was abominably slow (12-15 hrs). From the spare hard drive it took about 20 minutes
for the winnt program to copy all the installation files. I greatly recommend doing
this over installing from a CD. Also the ISO9660 character set vs DOS character
set difference problem just goes away when you use a hard drive since the character
set used on the hard drive is automatically going to be the DOS character set, not
the ISO9660 character set.
-- Don Ramsey
On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 12:31 pm, perez wrote:
>USE DOS IN PLACE OF ISO9660 when you burn your CD
>the 14 files are no more missing
>Have a nice day
>Perez luis
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