mawi Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 (edited) Resolved, see this post. (last in topic, below)RE: WinSetupFromUSB (0.1.1, latest at the time of writing)* Trying to install Win XP sp 3, nlited install with drivers for drive, options but no addons.* First part goes fine; I reboot* Windows starts and I anticipate second part of installation. "Windows loading screen" (don't know actual name) is shown, then the familiar windows blue desktop color appears... but then, before anything else is shown, a command/terminal window and a dialogue on it appears.* The dialogue displays an error:Title: 16 bit MS-DOS SubsystemText:setup -newsetupC:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.Buttons: CLOSE/IGNOREThe commandline title is "setup -newsetup"* I have looked for a logfile to submit, but I have not found any.* I have tried different windows xp images, removed all addons to have a clean, trying to see if the problem might be somewhere else. No luck so far.* Other have experienced this problem, see here:German, Matt:http://myeee.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/wins...k/#comment-1256Any clues as to what may be causing this problem?Any help would be greatly appreciated!/mawi Edited March 21, 2009 by mawi
ilko_t Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 (edited) Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?Please attach WinSetupFromUSB.log found in program's directory, along with the old archived logs, found in \backups\date-time-log.cab.edit: have you removed by any chance 16-bit support by using nLite? Maybe the fake setup.exe needs some components in order work properly and execute the real setup.exe (setupORG.exe) after had launched presetup.cmd. Edited March 18, 2009 by ilko_t
mawi Posted March 18, 2009 Author Posted March 18, 2009 (edited) Hello,thankyou for your reply!Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?I tried another way with the usb drive and so I dont have it left.Please attach WinSetupFromUSB.log found in program's directory, along with the old archived logs, found in \backups\date-time-log.cab.OK; I have attached a zip with some logs. WinSetupFromUSB_Logs.zipedit: have you removed by any chance 16-bit support by using nLite? Maybe the fake setup.exe needs some components in order work properly and execute the real setup.exe (setupORG.exe) after had launched presetup.cmd.I tried to keep the edits to a minimum, just settings and driver for the disk, so I don't think so. I will try again with a vanilla setup to be sure.Best regards! /mawi Edited March 18, 2009 by mawi
ilko_t Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Nothing interesting in the log files. Without presetup.cmd and setup.exe comparison I cannot help any further.
mawi Posted March 20, 2009 Author Posted March 20, 2009 (edited) Hello!OK! I retried the whole procedure (this time with just one partition on the harddrive). Sadly, I got the same results, same error message as above. Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?I am not quite sure what files to compare:- I tried finding any of the three files you mention on the harddrive (I assumed that is where they would be extracted) yet I found none of them.- On the USB, in the -LS\i386 dir, I found them, of course. Here they are (names are prefixed to indicate where they came from):usb_presetupAndSetup.zipPlease tell me where to look for the files I need to compare with. Thanks for your help and time!Best regards,/mawiPS Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?Please attach WinSetupFromUSB.log found in program's directory, along with the old archived logs, found in \backups\date-time-log.cab.edit: have you removed by any chance 16-bit support by using nLite? Maybe the fake setup.exe needs some components in order work properly and execute the real setup.exe (setupORG.exe) after had launched presetup.cmd.By the way, I did double check that 16 bit subsystem was not disabled in nlite, and it was not. It sounded very plausible... :-) Edited March 20, 2009 by mawi
ilko_t Posted March 20, 2009 Posted March 20, 2009 usb-SETUP.EX_ is filled with zeroes as is setup.exe if you extract it using expand setup.ex_ setup.exe You can open it up with the free TinyHexer for example. If that's indeed setup.ex_ found in ~LS\I386 folder then copy manually setup.ex_ from \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\ to ~LS\I386 on the USB disk overwriting the existing corrupted file. This should get you going.You may want to check in TinyHexer \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\setup.ex_ first. If you see again all is zeroes then please let me know. As for why the file is corrupted I can only guess, maybe antivirus scanner interfering
mawi Posted March 21, 2009 Author Posted March 21, 2009 Hello again,usb-SETUP.EX_ is filled with zeroes as is setup.exeIf that's indeed setup.ex_ found in ~LS\I386 folder then copy manually setup.ex_ from \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\ to ~LS\I386 on the USB disk overwriting the existing corrupted file. This should get you going.good catch this!You may want to check in TinyHexer \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\setup.ex_ first. If you see again all is zeroes then please let me know.Yes, I checked the original setup.ex_ (in the installation dir), and it was the same! Besides viewing in my favorite editor, I also ran a comparison to be sure, all zeroes as you said.So I reinstalled WinSetupFromUSB, and then the file was different.I am now running WinSetupFromUSB again, creating a new install to the USB.Holding my thumbs! /mawi
mawi Posted March 21, 2009 Author Posted March 21, 2009 Progress!I am now looking at a Windows XP Setup dialogue, and it seems the install is progressing as expected after the reboot, contrary to before.This time, as WinSetupFromUSB was running, I got a sysinternals eula agreement dialogue. Not that it bothers me much, but I did not see this before. I apparently do not use their sync myself.Question: Is this as it should be? I am paranoid, I guess.../mawi
mawi Posted March 21, 2009 Author Posted March 21, 2009 SOLVED1. Problem: Faulty installation of WinSetupFromUSB, caused bad versions of setup files to be put into installation folder on USB. Consequently GUI phase of windows install failed.(Note: My install was not in default folder, but \Program Files\WinSetupFromUSB.)2. Cause: Unknown right now.3. Resolution: Reinstalled WinSetupFromUSB. Recreated installation on USB. Install worked fine.Big thanks to ilko_t for finding the problem!! /mawi
ilko_t Posted March 21, 2009 Posted March 21, 2009 This time, as WinSetupFromUSB was running, I got a sysinternals eula agreement dialogue. Not that it bothers me much, but I did not see this before. I apparently do not use their sync myself.Question: Is this as it should be? I am paranoid, I guess.../mawiThat's perfectly normal, nothing to worry about. Sync is used to flush data to the USB disk.SOLVED As for the corrupted file- maybe bad download (did you get it from MSFN link to datafilehost.com? ), AV scanner or something interfering with installation Anyway, glad you got it sorted.
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