saugatak Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 FDV, I put the XP version of NTDETECT.COM and ntldr in the FIX folder. When I look at SOURCESS/I386 folder, however, Win2k NTDETECT.COM and ntldr are present.Also, the HFSLIP'd Win2k install on VMWare has the Win2k version of NTDETECT.COM and ntldr.What am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdv Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 (edited) just FYI, i changed the thread title to make it clearer.i'll defer to tommyp on the 'why' though because i am not sure.mine actually works fine. are you using the latest (october) version of HFSLIP? Edited October 10, 2005 by fdv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saugatak Posted October 10, 2005 Author Share Posted October 10, 2005 @FDV, using latest HFSLIP and FDV fileset I believe as now I download the latest just before running HFSLIP.My error log is attached.P.S. I think Oleg's idea to remove help files is a good one. They're pretty much useless and if you can run HFSLIP, you can Google, hit M$ knowledge base and MSFN forums to find the answer you need anyway.ERROR_REPORT.TXT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyp Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Dumb question, but are your 100% sure that the files you placed in the FIX folder are from an XP cd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saugatak Posted October 10, 2005 Author Share Posted October 10, 2005 (edited) @tommypIt is not a dumb question, but I am 100% sure I put in XP files because this computer I am using now is XP, and I used its NTDETECT.COM and ntldr. I compared dates and filesizes, and the NTDETECT.COM and ntldr in FIX are bigger files and later dates than the Win2k NTDETECT.COM and ntldr.This is the computer I want to rebuild with HFSLIP FDV Win2k because XP is slowing this computer down a lot.I'm doing some more work on FDV's files and I'll run HFSLIP again.I've been researching what files to take out of the OS/2 subsystem (which IMO is completely extraneous) and will post shortly. Edited October 10, 2005 by saugatak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 My FDV/NoIE installs and runs great as long as I stay away from ntdetect and ntldr If I drop those file into FIX and then HFSLIP/ISO/VMWARE as usual, I get the attached BSOD about an inaccessible_boot_device. If those files are NOT in FIX and I HFSLIP/ISO/VMWARE as usual, everything runs fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saugatak Posted October 10, 2005 Author Share Posted October 10, 2005 I've read in other forums that using NTDETECT.COM and ntldr does lead to a faster boot so I'd like to get it in there and give it a shot.@TommyP and FDV, is it possible to just replace the NTDETECT.COM and ntldr in SOURCESS/I386 if the FIX folder method doesn't work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyp Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Yes, you manually replace the two files into the SOURCESS\i386 folder. However, if you get a BSOD again. you have the wrong files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murvun Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 saugatak and tommyp:in line 298: IF EXIST FIX COPY /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386the copy-command can't see the hidden files NTDETECT.COM and ntldrperhaps ATTRIB -S -H FIX\*.* might help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyp Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 @murvun - Cool suggestion. Can someone test? I had an idea, perhaps it's a capitalization issue? I believe both my files are upper case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lupo Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 saugatak and tommyp:in line 298: IF EXIST FIX COPY /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386the copy-command can't see the hidden files NTDETECT.COM and ntldrperhaps ATTRIB -S -H FIX\*.* might help?@ tommypAlso, if you want, you can use xcopy instead of the copy command...try this: (it copies hidden, system files and overwrites old and read-only files without confirm)IF EXIST FIX XCOPY /H /R /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saugatak Posted October 12, 2005 Author Share Posted October 12, 2005 TommyP, let me know if you've fixed this issue in the latest HFSLIP and I will test it tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyp Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 @saugatak - I'm not going to release it just yet. Why not open a dos window in your HFSLIP folder. Type in IF EXIST FIX XCOPY /H /R /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386 and see what happens. Also, check to see if those files have a hidden attribute and/or check capitalization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saugatak Posted October 14, 2005 Author Share Posted October 14, 2005 @tommyp, I'm not as tech savvy as you are so this is how I interpreted what you suggested:I opened a DOS window and CD to HFSLIP director. Then I typed "IF EXIST FIX XCOPY /H /R /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386"In my FIX folder I had the following files:1) Win XP SP2 version of NTDETECT.COM2) Win XP SP2 version of ntldr3) notepad.ex_ (made using Oleg's method, replace notepad with win32pad)4) WINNT.SIFThe results were:F:\HFSLIP IF EXIST FIX XCOPY /H /R /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386FIX\notepad.ex_FIX\WINNT.SIF 2 files copied.By see what happens I guess you mean check the SOURCESS folder to see if the latest NTDETECT.COM and ntldr are included? I did that and both are still Win2k versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lupo Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 (edited) @saugatakin my system my method works...however can you use the method posted by murvun?just to test if it works.go in hfslip director and type:ATTRIB -S -H FIX\*.* (no output is done)IF EXIST FIX COPY /Y FIX\*.* SOURCESS\I386(output the files copied) Edited October 14, 2005 by lupo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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