Venturis said:
I get the following error while creating ERD,
The operation Failed,
The disk file was not found or was inaccessible.
My problem was that the setup.log file was missing
(C:\WINNT\repair\setup.log). It probably got deleted as part of a
cleanup because *LOG* files are supposed to be *logfiles*, not setup or
recovery files! Stupid Microsoft!
Someone in a newsgroup e-mailed me a copy of their setup.log file. Now
the ERD doesn't complain. However, I cannot really use that particular
setup.log file in the ERD because it contains info for the other
person's system instead of mine. The setup.log file contains hash codes
of system files. It is supposed to get updated according to something I
read in a Microsoft KB article by a service pack update - but it didn't
when I reapplied Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. The only way that I know
of to actually get the hash values updated in the setup.log file is to
perform an in-place upgrade of Windows. Since I save disk images for
recovery (along with tape backups but only for data files), there's no
critical need yet for me to do the in-place upgrade to get setup.log
updated with the correct file list and hash codes, but eventually I'll
have to do an that.
Of course, it would be way to smart and and easy to have the ERD
actually tell you which file it claims is missing. Gee, 50,000 files on
my hard drive and *I* am supposed to know which one that the *program*
bitches about when the program obviously knows which file it thinks is
missing. "Error discovered - but I'm not going to tell you, ha-ha,
ha-ha, ha-ha."
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