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| Initial Windows XP Setup fails to finish |
| Forum: Windows XP |
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| #1 By 75677 (74.116.82.18) at Thursday, March 15, 2007 07:43:45 PM |
| I too found this thread while searching the net as it is the only one... I consulted alot of other people they all said that its a memory problem... any ideas??? If not can some one please email me at saiknaram@gmail.com with a solution, or i am forced to reinstall my whole win XP Pro!! Thanks! |
| #2 By 124404 (66.227.168.70) at Tuesday, June 17, 2008 06:05:06 PM |
| I have also found this thread on a Google search, even though it's over a year old. It appears to be some kind of copy protection on the VLK ISO of SP3 from Microsoft. I used the ISO to upgrade a laptop. Put the CD in, ran setup.exe, chose "upgrade," put in a working key, no problems, updated completed successfully. Did the same thing on a friend's desktop. Same thing, everything completed successfully. Did the same thing on my own desktop. Fail. Get the exact error that is being reported in this thread. The "missing" file seems to be a string of randomly generated characters. Searching for the missing file on Google returns zero results. If anyone figures out how to get around this, please post. The desktop has a ton of customizations on it, I can't really afford to wipe it and do a clean install. |
| #3 By 124613 (81.169.136.204) at Wednesday, June 18, 2008 01:49:53 PM |
| [QUOTE]Originally Posted by TheRuiner: I have also found this thread on a Google search, even though it's over a year old. It appears to be some kind of copy protection on the VLK ISO of SP3 from Microsoft. I used the ISO to upgrade a laptop. Put the CD in, ran setup.exe, chose "upgrade," put in a working key, no problems, updated completed successfully. Did the same thing on a friend's desktop. Same thing, everything completed successfully. Did the same thing on my own desktop. Fail. Get the exact error that is being reported in this thread. The "missing" file seems to be a string of randomly generated characters. Searching for the missing file on Google returns zero results. If anyone figures out how to get around this, please post. The desktop has a ton of customizations on it, I can't really afford to wipe it and do a clean install. [/QUOTE] Hi I think this is a bug. I've seen it happen to some users before. It's not specific to the XP SP3 CD... I saw this on SP2, as well as Windows Server 2003. This isn't related to the original poster's problem, by the way. When it does happen, it only happens when you choose "upgrade" after running setup.exe. Before the first reboot, the progress bar goes to 100%, then returns an error that it can't copy a file. The file starts with "a" followed by seven random alphanumeric characters followed by .sys. The setup routine run by the CD actually is scripted to look for the randomly generated file. In other words, the CD is NOT bad and it is NOT caused by a virus trojan or malware. The randomly generated file name is NOT any kind of valid driver, it's just garbage. To date, no one associated with Microsoft has publically acknowledged this behavior, what it is, why it happens, etc. Anyway... if this is happening to you, it's relatively easy to fix it: Run the setup.exe on the CD and choose "upgrade". When it stops with the "File Copy Error," click "Skip File." Let it reboot. On reboot, it will give you a boot menu. DON'T select the "Windows XP Install" option. Instead, select the normal operating system and boot back into Windows XP. After you're back in XP, go into the C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\ directory. Open the unsupdrv.inf file in notepad. There will be two sections in it. The header, then a section that only references the randomly generated file name from above. DELETE the ENTIRE SECTION that references the randomly generated file name. Leave the header alone. Save the file. Reboot, then when you get the boot menu, select the "Windows XP Install" option. It should now run normally. Good luck!!! |
| #4 By 124404 (66.227.168.70) at Thursday, June 19, 2008 01:09:37 PM |
| Microsoftolypse's instructions successfully got around this ridiculous problem. I can't thank him enough! |
| #5 By 139167 (89.216.119.199) at Monday, August 18, 2008 04:15:43 PM |
| [Version] Signature = "$Windows NT$" [AddReg.dtscsi] HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi",,0x00000012 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi","Type",0x00010003,1 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi","Start",0x00010003,3 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi","ErrorControl",0x00010003,1 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi","Tag",0x00010003,33 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi","ImagePath",0x00020002,"\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\dtscsi.sys" HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi","Group",0x00000002,"SCSI miniport" HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi\Parameters",,0x00000012 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi\Parameters\PnpInterface",,0x00000012 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi\Parameters\PnpInterface","0",0x00010003,1 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi\Security",,0x00000012 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtscsi\Security","Security",0x00030003,\ 01,00,14,80,90,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,00,1c,00,01,\ 00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,02,00,\ 60,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,\ 00,00,00,18,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,\ 00,00,14,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,fd,\ 01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,\ 00,05,12,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00 [Files.dtscsi] dtscsi.sys,system32\drivers [HardwareIds.dtscsi] *PNPA000=dtscsi ACPI\PNPA000=dtscsi [Devices] dtscsi Sorry here's that file you were talking about, wich part should I delete? |
| #6 By 139167 (89.216.119.199) at Tuesday, August 19, 2008 01:47:27 PM |
| I have 1 system disk and 1SATA disk, I unplugged my SATA and installation continued smoothly. |
