Problem missing files bootvid.dll or SP2.CAB

[greave]

Hello,

I've been trying to install XP on an old thinkpad with no CD with the tool posted here, but I keep getting error messages.

I tried using the tool twice, using two different USB sticks and two different XP setups. Both times the sticks have been formatted (Fat16).

Using the XP Pro SP3 setup, I manage to boot, yet during the copy files phase I get a SP2.CAB file missing.

When trying the XP Home SP2 setup, I also manage to boot, but get a bootvid.dll file missing error. (skipping file doesn't help).

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[jaclaz]

Hello,

I've been trying to install XP on an old thinkpad with no CD with the tool posted here, but I keep getting error messages.

I tried using the tool twice, using two different USB sticks and two different XP setups. Both times the sticks have been formatted (Fat16).

Using the XP Pro SP3 setup, I manage to boot, yet during the copy files phase I get a SP2.CAB file missing.

When trying the XP Home SP2 setup, I also manage to boot, but get a bootvid.dll file missing error. (skipping file doesn't help).

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

It does sound like a somehow "wrong" source. Maybe a hiccup in the slipstreaming of the Service Packs?

(a "truly slipstreamed" SP3 should ask for SP3.cab and not for SP2.cab AFAICR)

Usually a "file is missing" error means that a file is actually missing.

(or it may be somehow a corrupted .SIF file)

Can you post some info/details on both the sources you tried to use?

jaclaz

[greave]

Can you post some info/details on both the sources you tried to use?

jaclaz

Well the Home SP2 is an original XP CD I have at home, the SP3 isn't. However both work fine (used them both in their CD form). So I doubt there's something missing from the sources...

Then again when searching for, bootvid.dll for example, in my Original CD, I get no results.

edit:

googling brought this up:

Link

Edited January 9, 2010 by greave

[jaclaz]

Well the Home SP2 is an original XP CD I have at home, the SP3 isn't. However both work fine (used them both in their CD form). So I doubt there's something missing from the sources...

Then again when searching for, bootvid.dll for example, in my Original CD, I get no results.

edit:

googling brought this up:

Link

The link you found seems to hint that a problem with RAM may cause this behaviour.

As a matter of fact XP setup is "picky" when it comes to RAM, but I really cannot remember a similar issue (saying one or more files are missing) .

Bootvid.dll is just the first of a series of files that should fail to copy.

What you can try as it would cost you nothing would be to try re-seating RAM and use "conservative" BIOS settings.

As well, you may try copying the CD .iso to hard disk (should it be a timing problem of some kind) and use a virtual Cd driver. (this would also explain why two different sources both fail)

On a normal XP CD bootvid.dll is in \I386\ in compressed form as BOOTVID.DL_.

Do the following, open a command prompt, insert the two windows CD's (one at the time ) and issue, respectively:

DIR D: /S >C:\XPhomeSP2.dir

and

DIR D: /S >C:\XPPROSP3.dir

(assuming that D:\ is your CD)

then re-do the same for the USb thingie, something like:

DIR E: /S >C:\XPhomeSP2USB.dir

DIR E: /S >C:\XPPROSP3USB.dir

compress XPhomeSP2.dir, XPPROSP3.dir and XPhomeSP2USB.dir or XPPROSP3USB.dir (or, better, both) in a .zip file and post the .zip as attachment to your next post.

Then, I will move your problem and (hopefully) answers to it to a new "dedicated" thread.

jaclaz

P.S.: Just in case:

http://www.msfn.org/board/error-while-inst...pro-t83321.html

Edited January 9, 2010 by jaclaz

[greave]

Ok I tried changing the RAM slot, still doesn't work.

Here's the file you asked for:

Archive.rar

[jaclaz]

Ok I tried changing the RAM slot, still doesn't work.

Here's the file you asked for:

Both sources are NOT "kosher".

The XP Home is evidently a "WAREZ" release , "wrongly" burned, too :

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 110 AUTORUN.INF

04/28/2006 10:21 PM <DIR> CRACK

04/28/2006 10:21 PM <DIR> DOCS

04/28/2006 10:21 PM <DIR> DOTNETFX

04/28/2006 10:21 PM <DIR> I386

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 34,301 README.HTM

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 1,314,816 SETUP.EXE

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 85,792 SETUPXP.HTM

04/28/2006 10:21 PM <DIR> SUPPORT

04/28/2006 10:18 PM 29 Serial.txt

04/28/2006 10:21 PM <DIR> VALUEADD

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 10 WIN51

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 10 WIN51IC

08/04/2004 02:00 PM 10 WIN51IC.SP2

01/06/2004 06:47 AM 2,048 boot.bin

04/28/2006 10:22 PM 2,048 boot.catalog

The XP Pro appears like a "mish-mash", nlited version of some kind:

11/25/2008 08:53 PM 2,828 LAST SESSION.INI

11/25/2008 08:53 PM 956 LAST SESSION_U.INI

Original XP files are dated:08/23/2001 01:00

SP2 files are dated: 08/04/2004 02:07

SP3 files have various dates, between 2006 and 14-04-2008

The CD has been compiled on 01/01/1601 02:00 AM <DIR>

No way to say if the above is part (or "root") of the problem, but you do understand how we cannot support non-standard sources, don't you?

jaclaz

[greave]

The /dir taken from the CDs are ISO files I mounted on a Virtual CD, so that could explain the weird compiling date. I do have an original XP CD, and since I understand you cannot support illegal copies, I will provide you with an original /dir (and a matching USB copy) as soon as I get back home. I wasn't trying to mislead you or anything, it's just the effect I get with the Original CD is the same as with the other copies, so didn't think it's a big deal. Anyways, I will post again as soon as I'm back home...

Thanks for your help so far

[jaclaz]

The /dir taken from the CDs are ISO files I mounted on a Virtual CD, so that could explain the weird compiling date. I do have an original XP CD, and since I understand you cannot support illegal copies, I will provide you with an original /dir (and a matching USB copy) as soon as I get back home. I wasn't trying to mislead you or anything, it's just the effect I get with the Original CD is the same as with the other copies, so didn't think it's a big deal. Anyways, I will post again as soon as I'm back home...

Yep, this way we can exclude the source as cause and analyze other possible aspects.

Thanks for your help so far

No prob.

jaclaz

[ilko_t]

You may also want to try turning antivirus and similar software off while copying files, as well as other USB stick.

Which tool did you use? What version?

[greave]

Well I figured it out. It appears the problem was the Hard disk. I formatted the hard-disk using Part Magic and it did the trick, worked flawlessly. Funny thing is, I formatted the drive previously using the XP setup, but for some reason it still didn't work. Ah well, thanks everyone anyway

[ilko_t]

Thanks for the solution