File Copy Error XP Upgrade

Hi all! :wave

I tried to type this in Google but absolutely nothing was found. Strange. Anyway.

I'm trying to repair my Windows XP installation by choosing the Upgrade option in Windows XP setup. After it has finished copying the files, I get this error: (as seen in link)

Specs: http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=infodx1.jpg

Error: http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errorxa6.jpg

I ran the setup a few times but I get the same thing, each time with a different .sys. Once I got ac35ljwl.sys and asds7wpf.sys. I don't really know what the problem is because I think if I did a clean install it would work.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

 

Oh...right.

I thought by upgrading it it would repair any corrupt files etc...

How do you repair it without doing that then?

Well the CD is new so I don't think it can be dirty and I tried with different CDs. :confused

 

Yeah I meant because I used to have SP2 and tried to upgrade with CD with SP2 on it, still got the same thing. And then tried with XP SP3 and still the same with the upgrade option.

I'll have a peek now~ Thank you for the link!

 

I done it and it installed a sort of new version of it. I have now two Windows on the same partition. What do I do now?

If I need to get into my normal account I have to select the second on the list and boot up. Does that mean it's repaired or...?

 

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XPProfessional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XPProfessional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

That's what it says.

But I just sorta installed a new XP and what do I do? Do I copy all my program files to the new windows?

 

I can boot to all of them. But the second is the D+E drive which I use.

I now get this when I boot up.

Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional

The last one is drive C which I don't use.

The second is the partition on which Windows was installed on (D, part of E).

The first is is the new drive D.

 

It's not that it didn't work. It works fine. It just wasn't doing the XP Upgrade so that I'd fix some corrupt files because Windows Live Mess wan't working and there was something corrupted in there because the upgrade didn't work.

 

:-D I'll tell you the story...

I started out with drive C, as you do.

Then, I received a new drive and that was installed into my PC, but my installer didn't have much experience because I later found out that the old drive should of been taken out before I installed a new Windows.

Anyway, I was now going to use drive D. So I installed Windows on it. I then partitioned the rest of it as my storage and that turned into E.

So there we have it

 

Ok, thank you for all your help!

 

Ok, clean slate. How is the system now and what problems are you having.

 

Hi!

I just tried running WLM on the new install and it seems to work fine and also Windows Update is running better than it was on this one.

I was just wondering what to do now because I have two Windows folders, Windows and Windows.0 on the same partition. Do I have to move files over and all that?

Thank you for your help!

 

oh so every thing works, you just have several windows folders and several boot options and you want to delete them?

 

Currently I'm booted into the Windows which I done the install from, let's call it WindowsMain. I think this one still has problems on it because WLM won't run on it, so it's just the same as before.

I know I just done the "repair" on it, but it didn't really repair anything, I just got a new Windows file on the same partition. I can boot into that option too so it works.

But the new Windows.0 is just a blank canvas, nothing on it, I don't think any of my settings are on it. So I'm kinda confused as to what I should do, because the repair didn't actually repair what I wanted it to.

That's why I wanted to do that Upgrade from Windows Setup. rolleyes

 

What happens here, why isn't Windows Live Messenger working?

Did you get it installed, will it open, any errors?

Steve

 

It will open, sign in and then pop up and say that it can't find my contacts please try later. And yes it is only me because all my friends can log in fine, no problems. That was going on for about 2 weeks I think so I don't think their servers are down and it's still going on now.

The Windows I just installed, it works on there so by process of elimination there's something wrong with the main Windows I am using.

 

Try the Connection Troubleshooter built into Messenger, it can help Messenger self-diagnose the problem.

It is launched by "File->Tools->Options..." menu item. Clicking the "Connections" tab.

Pressing the "Start..." button in the "Connection Troubleshooter" section.

If that doesn't work, adjust your Microsoft Internet Explorer security settings:

• Start Internet Explorer.
• On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, and then click the Advanced tab.
• In the Security section, make sure that the following check boxes are set correctly:
o Clear the Check for server certificate revocation check box.
o Select the Use SSL 2.0 check box.
o Select the Use SSL 3.0 check box
• Click OK to close the window.

Close IE and click on START, select RUN and type in each command below one at a time and click the OK button. After each command is executed successfully, you will receive a "DllRegisterServer succeeded" message. If a command fails just go to the next command.

• REGSVR32 softpub.dll
• REGSVR32 wintrust.dll
• REGSVR32 initpki.dll
• REGSVR32 Rsaenh.dll
• REGSVR32 Mssip32.dll
• REGSVR32 Cryptdlg.dll
• REGSVR32 Dssenh.dll
• REGSVR32 Gpkcsp.dll
• REGSVR32 Slbcsp.dll
• REGSVR32 Sccbase.dll

Restart the machine and try Live Messenger again.

Steve

 

Yeah I tried all of those before. Everything I have tried has yielded no results.

What do I do with this second Windows? Can I delete it?

 

I don't know about the "second Windows". I, like TimW, am having trouble understanding exactly what you have installed where and which you are actually using. And, you seem to have/using several XP cd's that we don't know what they are.

My suggestion would be to totally wipe/format everything and install the original xp. Then you are starting with fresh drives and any partitions you choose to create.

You might get a better solution or advice, but I think you will still run into problems later.

Steve

 

I said what I installed and where here:

 

Yeah, I guess I'll have to do that some day since there's no way around it. Thank you for your help anyway!

 

OK. Wish I could be of more help.

There could be a better solution for you that I don't know about but I still think you will run into more issues.

If you plan on trying to save or transfer any files/programs from the other drive, I would scan the devil out it before I put it on my fresh installation.

Steve

 

I found this thread on a Google search.

I am having the exact same issue as the original poster.

Windows XP SP2 is installed on the machine. I am trying to update to Windows XP SP3. I am using a VLK ISO. I used this ISO to update two other computers. It worked fine on them with no issues.

The "missing file" appears to be a string of randomly generated characters. It appears as the exact same time as the original poster's screenshot... the "copying files" bar goes to 100% then the error pops up. If I do "Skip file" then the install fails on reboot... it says that file specified in the error dialog is missing.

I am at a complete loss. All of the troubleshooting I have tried so far cannot get me around this error message.

This is a desktop with a high degree of customizations on it; I need to do an "upgrade," I cannot afford to wipe the drive and do a full install.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

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.

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!!!

 

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a BILLION!!! :-D:drool