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| Thread ID: 21301 | 2002-06-22 08:54:00 | Tips time again folks-for Win95 users | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 56439 | 2002-06-23 06:03:00 | Make sure Susan that the 'check the drive for errors' box from Settings is not ticked before you start Defrag, else it will take an age. Let Scandisk do the error checking as & when you want. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 56440 | 2002-06-23 10:09:00 | Hi Terry Thanks for the update, but there's no CD rom on the Libretto, just an external floppy. I can email bigger files to it, but can you tell me the name for the default sfc log file please? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 56441 | 2002-06-23 20:52:00 | Hi Billy, I suppose it may have been easier to use the dos extract command to get all sfc*.* files off the cdrom to a folder and then copy them to floppy to transfer to a Win95 machine. Sfc doesnt say what missing file it is extracting from the CD, but afterwards these two files have appeared; sfcsync.txt, and sfclog.txt. I can only find the sfcsync.txt on the CD, so maybe that is the one to extract, and the other is made on running sfc. There is also a sfc.hlp file. As the location in the cab files can vary according to which CD you have, you could run the extract.exe in search mode from a dos window: extract /A /D E:\win98\win98_23.cab sfc*.* | more This will go through each cab file on the CD (E: or whatever the CD drive letter), and say where each sfc file is on your CD. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 56442 | 2002-06-24 04:55:00 | When you do the extract on the CABs, don't pipe it ( | more ); redirect ( > w98files.txt ) it to a file. That way you've got a list you can use again. If you use more, the one you want is the one you "half" saw as you bounced through the pages. extract /? will give you the options, then there is a combination which gets the names of all the files in all the CABs. It requires the name of the first win98_NN.cab, then it will read them in turn. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 56443 | 2002-06-24 08:39:00 | With all respect, Graham, the | more piping filter does send data to the monitor one screen at a time so the data doesn't flash by. Your method will generate a record if needed, nothing wrong with that. I used win98_23.cab as the first cab file to start searching from. What I did forget to say was that the file sfcsync.txt which is on the CD gets put into c:\windows. The other 2 files go into c:\windows\system There is also another file that gets made when sfc.exe is run, that seems to be default.sfc in c:\windows |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 56444 | 2002-06-25 00:56:00 | Thanks guys. I've copied all posts to a txt file and will try your suggestions when I get a few minutes spare time (brittle laugh). Cheers Bill 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 56445 | 2002-06-25 04:50:00 | Terry, have you never hit the space bar one time too many when paging through something piped to more? the "Oops, too far" syndrome. That's why I redirect to a file, so I can look at it backwards and forwards with an editor. (*nix has "less" the improved "more" --- it goes backwards as well as forwards. | Graham L (2) | ||
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