re: missing files
Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 5:30 am
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Posted by Joel Thayer
(2 messages posted)
Mike...great thoughts. After several attempts to reinstall XP to fix my missing
files/driver problem, the computer won't boot at all. (I'm writing this on line with
my 9 year old mac! eeeww!) I went ahead with a reinstall of XP because I have been
having trouble installing everthing from Digital camera software to Bible software
and now Windows XP reinstall. The XP reinstall found 59 (!) missing dll, sys, exe,
infacs, bin, mst, and icm files. The only variable I could come up with as to why
the blasted 'puter wouldn't insall anything all of the sudden was the new CD-RW I
installed a couple weeks ago. My computer has only a 399 MHz cpu (the highest for
that motherboard) and although it runs the burner, it dose so slowly. I bet it takes
30 min. on average to burn a CD. Though the CD-RW is 52x 24x 52x. But I bet the
read speed is too fast. Anyhow, I'm going to first try setting the cd-roms to mode
2 er something in the cmos/bios, if no go, I'll put the old cdrom in and try again,
if still no go, I guess I'll reinstall 98 and go from there.
I'll try to keep the readers posted...
On Sunday, February 15, 2004 at 7:51 am, mike wrote:
>Greetings:
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>We'ed like to point out a few things we've noticed with the cyclad and other files
>missing problem.
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>Just to get this out of the way. This problem plagues
>legitimate copies of windows XP and Xp pro.
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>Here's what we've noticed.
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>#1: The cyclad... and other missing files occur in the install started from MS-DOS
> or XP boot disk install including the /i386/winnt.exe technique.
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>#2: When upgrading from within windows 98, the errors of "missing (unable to extract)files"
>does not occur.
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>#3: When viewing the drivers.cab file in windows 98 one can see and extract the
cyclad
>and the other missing files.
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> *Two out of the five* copies of windows XP we tested had problems with reading
>the drivers.cab missing files (ex.cyclad,e.t.c.) and other driver & CAB MM files.
>This includes viewing or extracting the files manualy in windows. Even if the entier
>windows xp install cd is copied to the HD for quick installation. The missing files
>problems still persists when done by (fresh install) ms-dos or xp boot/install floppy
>disk.
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> As far as we can determine. There are either weak sectors on the windows
>xp install cd's , or the dirver.cab was not properly compiled.
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>As for the no missing files when upgrading . It is conceivable that since windows
>98 can read the cab files correctly and retries several times over to read a file
>. It is possible that the cyclad and other files are perhaps crosslinked or just
>bad cab files and windows 98 is able to recover the weak data.
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>One person did comment to us that they didn't have a problem with the the missing
>files when running under an NTFS OS &partition, granted this may be possible. However
>our NTFS OS & partition test resulted in the same number of missing files as with
>a fat-32 partition.
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>We did notice a difference when we installed and used a much slower/older cd-rom
>drive. 9 missing files instead of 14.
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>Our best guess is the "weak sectors" theory. As slower/older cd-rom drives tend
to
>produce less of the missing file errors. However it does not explain why a cd-writter
>with it's more advanced /accurate reading abilities
>is not able to read the weak sectors as well while in Ms-dos or NT/XP boot OSthan
>an old ex. 12x cd-rom drive. Unfortunately there is very little that can be done
>to undo the dammage to the data in the weak sectors.
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>The missing/unredable files is also rather unstable. It's not
>always 14 files, it could be 11, or 3, or 15.
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>In other words MS got a bad batch of cd's or the master was defective when making
>thier copies.
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>Nextly we can't confirm this. However it is possible that if one has smartdrive
running
> when installing xp from dos that
>it could casue these errors. Though we've never seen evidence of this. We can not
>confirm the effect of smardrive on Xp install's own cache.
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>Also setting the cd-roms to mode 2 in the cmos/bios did provide a marked improvement
>in the number or missing file errors. We agree that this is odd . However it only
>makes sense when a fast cd-rom/writter is used on an older computer system .
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>We hope this helps.
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