re: missing files
Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 11:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe Whitehead
(2 messages posted)
I've seen 3 errors that are described by previous posters in a shop I work at. If
it's specific files (the ones with ~ or - becoming _), then you need to just copy
the files to a folder on the hard drive, open Layout.inf in edit, and search for
"~1" and then "sv-" and finally "cycl" in the text. Everytime you see one of the
files that isn't copying, just change the Layout.inf file's list of files to match!
Simple to do, almost impossible to have known to look there. An alternative is
to rename the files back to their original names after copying.
The 2nd kind of error is most certainly caused by conflicts of some sort while copying
the files. I've seen fresh disk's that worked great on 10 computers, but some models
will randomly hiccup on files, then usually crash to blue screen right before windows
would normally try to login for the first time. Windows 2000 would likely do the
same thing. What sucks is that on a HP I've worked on, you can only get XP Home
restore disks even though it came with 2000 - which is an upgrade from Home edition.
:P Since it wouldn't let us reinstall 2000, this seems unfair.
If a disk is scratched then no computer will install from it and you need to make
another backup. (You DO use only your backups, right?) It's hard trying to explain
to your boss that you can't restore his computer because your disk is no longer working
and you don't even have a copy of the i386 folder to work with.
It's easy to determine which is happening if you follow this rule: Random names=hardware
related. Specific names but not "-" or "~" in filenames means disk is dirty or poorly
manufactured/written. Names with specific charactors may be drive firmware, BIOS
or DOS not seeing the "-" or "~" in the name.
On Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 9:38 am, John wrote:
>One of my co-workers found the two inf files on another server. He wrote...
>
>The two missing files are drivers for products from the Cyclades Corporation. Cyclad-z.inf
>is for a console server/terminal server device and the cyclom-y.inf file is for
an
>add-on multi-port serial card.
>
>I don’t think we intend on using either of these devices in the near future.
>
>I doubt we are ever going to run across that hardware for our servers. If we did,
>I would just install the drivers from elsewhere. Therefore, I'm finished with this
>particular issue. If any of you only had the two files that did not copy, and your
>server is working just fine, I wouldn't worry about it either.
>
>John
>
>
>
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- re: missing files (John: Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 9:38 am)
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