re: missing files SOLUTION
Monday, April 5, 2004 at 8:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by imma
(1 messages posted)
load smartdrv.exe before you start the Xp installation from a CD. This speeds it
the copying process
On Saturday, April 3, 2004 at 3:05 pm, Don Ramsey wrote:
>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
>
>
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