Copying very slow after using makecab on Driver.cab SP1.cab

#1 chrisoborski

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:31 PM

Im manually removing components from my cd. I first have to unzip both cab files then remove the files from driver folder and Sp1 folder and also i386 folder. I removed entries from "txtsetup.sif" "dosnet.inf" then when finished i turn driver folder into driver.cab and SP1 folder into SP1.cab. While windows is copying files from the cd to harddrive copying is slow for some files and even pauses. Its slow for the files i haven't removed I mean. I've narrowed it down to files coming from the driver.cab file but these files haven't been removed. So im thinking that it has to do with the compression of the cab file or my settings when i recompressed said cabinet files. The files copying slow are "swenum.sys" "rio8drv.sys" "riodrv.sys" and more..

Here's the batch file of what goes on during recompressing both cab files.

DRIVERS! Finishing Off.cmd (1.2K)
Number of downloads: 6
Is there any way to tell what compression level or method Microsoft used when compressing both cabinet files? I haven't got to the point yet where i can check the Setuperr.log file yet but i'll post as soon as i do.. I don't think these are errors but something else anyways...

Thanks

#2 allen2

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Posted 20 May 2010 - 03:48 AM

If you removed swenum.sys, you'll probably get problems later.
I would try MSZIP compression as it is the default MS compression.

#3 chrisoborski

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Posted 20 May 2010 - 04:50 AM

Well i didn't remove swenum.sys or any of the files that are slow to copy. Actually it pauses on swenum.sys for about 30 seconds and then continues on. It's just really weird that it pauses on certain files. I've watched it for most of the copying process and didn't see any files listed that i removed. I haven't had anything fail to copy though but that's why i thought it might of had to do with the compression level or some setting pertaining to that that i wasn't aware of.

Thank you very much i'm going to try it with MSZIP. I knew someone would know...

Thanks Again

EDIT: This is great i found this for anyone interested http://www.msfn.org/...sue-t25374.html

This post has been edited by chrisoborski: 20 May 2010 - 05:12 AM

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