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fede.caceres
Recently I did a silly thing, I needed to run Avira's NTFS4DOS
program, unfortunately, I had problems running the FreeDOS bootdisk,
so I created a Win ME DOS bootdisk and used it.
(I don't know if the part I mentioned before had anything to do with
what is happening now, I just think it's good for you all to know).
Once I logged back into windows, I got an error from Explorer.exe
saying that it couldn't read from the floppy drive (obviosly, I
removed the floppy from the drive before windows booted).
And I got a similar error when loading other applications, all of the
wanted to read from the floppy drive.
I spent the last couple of hours reading about this problem, and I
can't seem to find a solution. I scanned the whole drive (performing
Panda's online scan right now), removed temporary files, checked
for .PIF files, etc.
So i decided to download Sysinternal's File Monitor (filemon.exe). And
after that I ran MS Word, and filemon reported this:
02:41:09 a.m. explorer.exe:524 OPEN A:\wshESZ.DLL NOT FOUND Options:
Open Access: Read-Attributes
and after a while, it reported this:
02:41:28 a.m. WINWORD.EXE:4000 OPEN A:\"C:
\ARCHIV~1\MSNMES~1\msgsc.dll" NAME INVALID Options: Open Access: Read-
Attributes
02:41:29 a.m. WINWORD.EXE:4000 OPEN A:\"C:
\ARCHIV~1\MSNMES~1\msgsc.dll" NAME INVALID Options: Open Access: Read-
Attributes
So I'm puzzled, my intuition tells me that somehow the OS is somehow
appending the string "A:\" before every open command, thus generating
this error... but... why?
I'll experiment a little bit more with filemon.exe and report whatever
I find out.
I would really appreciate any comments or ideas on what might be
happening,
Thank you!
Federico Cáceres.
program, unfortunately, I had problems running the FreeDOS bootdisk,
so I created a Win ME DOS bootdisk and used it.
(I don't know if the part I mentioned before had anything to do with
what is happening now, I just think it's good for you all to know).
Once I logged back into windows, I got an error from Explorer.exe
saying that it couldn't read from the floppy drive (obviosly, I
removed the floppy from the drive before windows booted).
And I got a similar error when loading other applications, all of the
wanted to read from the floppy drive.
I spent the last couple of hours reading about this problem, and I
can't seem to find a solution. I scanned the whole drive (performing
Panda's online scan right now), removed temporary files, checked
for .PIF files, etc.
So i decided to download Sysinternal's File Monitor (filemon.exe). And
after that I ran MS Word, and filemon reported this:
02:41:09 a.m. explorer.exe:524 OPEN A:\wshESZ.DLL NOT FOUND Options:
Open Access: Read-Attributes
and after a while, it reported this:
02:41:28 a.m. WINWORD.EXE:4000 OPEN A:\"C:
\ARCHIV~1\MSNMES~1\msgsc.dll" NAME INVALID Options: Open Access: Read-
Attributes
02:41:29 a.m. WINWORD.EXE:4000 OPEN A:\"C:
\ARCHIV~1\MSNMES~1\msgsc.dll" NAME INVALID Options: Open Access: Read-
Attributes
So I'm puzzled, my intuition tells me that somehow the OS is somehow
appending the string "A:\" before every open command, thus generating
this error... but... why?
I'll experiment a little bit more with filemon.exe and report whatever
I find out.
I would really appreciate any comments or ideas on what might be
happening,
Thank you!
Federico Cáceres.