XP Install Missing Files: New Info
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nesmira
(3 messages posted)
I must correct a statement I made in the previous post about corruption. The actual
error just states "The file cannot be copied." The gives options to either skip,
retry, or quit setup. I got too caught up in something else there. Same concept
though...
But anyway, I found out some new info to point in the right direction. Hardware
seemed like an appropriate solution, but to no avail. At least it has nothing to
do with hardware incompatability or speed. Hey, at least the theory was tested.
Now, I have stumbled across some new ideas. Some things I noticed about these files.
The underscored files are obviously compressed versions, not that it surprises me.
But what if these files are from a different windows build and no longer listed
as that particular file size? There's a file list that it copies over from, and
I gotta find out what it is. What if the file size in that list is reported incorrectly?
It might not copy it because it is the incorrect size. This seems more unlikely
though because why would my discs from before suddenly work properly.
This certainly is a rather strange bug. I have a bootable SP1 slipstream that works
without any hassle now. Before, the SAME disc used to give me all sorts of trouble
on this very same system. The only change was the arrangement of hardware. When
I slipstream SP2, I get two files which will not copy. Perhaps it could be hardware
and software related. I can't seem to pin it down.
I modified EVERYTHING in the bios trying to get a change. I removed hardware, switched
memory, and even slowed things way down. Still the same result. Mike had a good
idea there. I'm very experienced with smartdrive in DOS. I used to make these insane
WIN98 install CDs that would slam the O/S on a partition and you would be sitting
on the desktop in 15 mins. Well, that was with another utility that creates a huge
drive letter in memory. Basically it installed win98 completely from memory. One
of the items I noticed during that is sometimes... and only sometimes, random even,
it would say a file was missing. I believe it could be the environment XP is loading
to copy the files efficiently and faster. It still goes along with the whole memory
idea I had before too. So it would be hardware, and software related. I'm going
to create my own WINXP load environment and see what happens. I wonder if they are
using smartdrive?? Perhaps tweaked too high?
I'll be back with more tests.
-Nesmira
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