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| 13340 | 2001-05-29 00:26:00 | Re:Your response as follows; 'Try starting in DOS mode and performing a surface scan of your hard drive using the SCANDISK /SURFACE /ALL command. This will perform a FAT and surface check of all your hard drives. If you find no problems, then I suggest replacing the scandskw.exe file from your installation CD. Responds To: Scandisk failure (John Wright - not the ' HI AGAIN! Thanks for your amazingly fast response to my query, re: scandisk problem. I?ve done a surface scan in DOS mode with no problem detected, but am unsure how to replace the scandskw.exe file the from my Windows 95 installation CD ? please help. THANK YOU AGAIN. John Wright |
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| 13341 | 2001-05-29 04:47:00 | John, To extract the file: 1. Start your computer in DOS mode and see if your CD-ROM is accessable. If not, you will have to either copy all the files under the Win95 directory on your CD to the hard drive, or obtain on Win98 Boot disk and start using the 'Start with CD-ROM support option). A third option is to load the DOS drivers for your CD-ROM, but this can sometimes cause a conflict with the Windows CD-ROM drivers resulting in an inability to start Windows. 2. Start the computer in DOS mode. 3. To extract the file type 'extract /a {source drive}:\{source dir}_02.cab {filename} /l [Note: this is an L] {Target drive}:\{target Directory}' (eg. extract /a d:\win95_02.cab scandskw.exe /l c:\windows). This will tell the computer to search all the cab files starting at number 2 (the first one) and when it locates scandskw.exe to copy it to the C:\windows directory). For a more detailed description of this process go to the microsoft.com Knowledge Base and look up Q129605. Other articles which may assist are: a. Q171241 Cannot mannually extract files... b. Q182090 How to access your CD-ROM... c. Q135540, Q135537, Q135538, Q135539 and Q135541 Windows CD-Rom directory listing |
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| 13342 | 2001-05-29 11:33:00 | Here's another visually simple way to extract cabinet files, but you have to download and install Microsoft Power Toys. In that package is a cabinet viewer, cabview.inf which is installed by right clicking it and selecting install. You can then search somewhat laboriously each cabinet file until you find what you want. A right click on the file will enable it to be extracted. Not as neat as the command line approach but it works ok, and Power Toys also offers other useful features. | Guest (0) | ||
| 13343 | 2001-06-04 10:00:00 | Thank you Terry Porritt for your reply also, re: Scandisk problem -I got Microsoft Power Toys to work as a cabinet viewer as you suggested & used this to reinstall scandskw.exe from my Windows 95 CD - still the same problem persists. I even uninstalled it & then searched for it, once I was sure how to extract it form the CD, to check that the extracted file had in fact replaced the original program. Does scanning the drive in Dos mode still scan the same as a Windows scan? If it does, maybe I need to be happy with this? Also, while I'm here, just wondering if you can help with another matter - I've been tidying up my computer & getting rid of a whole swag of temporary files etc. after reading an article in the latest consumer magazine on keeping your computer running well & tidy. When I go to my documents, I can no longer see a thumbnail picture of photos etc that I have scanned or a thumbnail of word documents etc. - I've tried changing from turning the web page setting on & off, to no avail - can you help - thank you again. Regards, John Wright |
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