cmdide.sys not found

[CWilson]

Forgive me if I've left anything out. I've been beating on this for days before stumbling in here.

System: Gigabyte 785NB 710SB based MB, AMD 9750 CPU

2 - SATA WD HDD configured as RAID 1 (SATA ports 0 and 1) GPT/MBR

last session attached.

default RAID drivers selected for uninstall but CMD PCI IDE driver and in fact all of the IDE drivers were left alone.

AMD64 folder verified as containing cmdide.sy_

I've copied the file and changed to cmdide.cab and successfully unpacked it so the file is indeed valid and intact.

In spite of this three attempts have failed with the installation ending with CMDIDE.SYS not found.

cmdide.sys is even added in the Keep File list.

I figured I'd ask before burning anymore bad dvds.

I'm guessing that a file path is incorrect somewhere... and if it's incorrect for one driver this is possibly just the tip of the iceberg.

no clue where to look. Any help please?

Last Session.ini

[johnhc]

CWilson, I don't see any culprit right now. I suggest you move to a virtual system for testing. VMware Player, VirtualPC and VirtualBox are all free. The Tweak "Explorer-Launch folder windows in a separate process" exposes a Windows bug and should be removed - has nothing to do with your problem. Have you tried with not removing SCSI/RAID driver? This is the real advantage to using a VM. Where is the error occurring - Text Mode or GUI? It would also be nice to see a screen shot of the error - also can do on a VM and no coasters. I too run XP x64 and have not seen this problem before. I do not remove SCSI/RAID driver. I would think the keep file would protect the file. You might try listing CMDIDE.SY_ in keep files. Does the error message indicate what file is calling the error? I have two copies of cmdide.sys; one as .SY_ (MD5 A663464027956BDECA29A652E7FAD96E) and one in the driver.cab (same MD5). Are you getting a missing message or a corrupted message? Enjoy, John.