Help With WPA.DBL Problem

[Richard]

Something is sporadically wiping out my WPA.DBL file.
I am not adding any new hardware etc. to my computer.
Usually about once a month something happens to the file
and I wind up in activation hell.

The only way I can recover is to boot up with a Win ME
boot disk and copy a floppy backup copy of the file to
C:\windows\system32 which get me up again.

Is this a problem anyone else has had? I run several AV
program as well as SPYBOT and AD-AWARE and
they do not find any problems.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Richard

 

[Guest]

This article may help. Retry the resolutions. It maybe the backed up file -
wpa.bak - is corrupt and is causing problems.

Article ID : 305356
Last Review : May 22, 2002
Revision : 1.0

If not, try a surface scan of your hard drive. The file(s) could be writing
into a bad sector. Although I think it probably is the first problem.

 

[Richard]

This article may help. Retry the resolutions. It maybe the backed up
file -
wpa.bak - is corrupt and is causing problems.

Article ID : 305356
Last Review : May 22, 2002
Revision : 1.0

If not, try a surface scan of your hard drive. The file(s) could be
writing
into a bad sector. Although I think it probably is the first problem.

Thanks for the reply. Where online can I get the above article?
There is not a wpa.bak file. I did a surface scan and there is no
problem.

Richard

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks for the reply. Where online can I get the above article?

Such articles are in the MS Knowledge base, the full reference is
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;306356

It seems to me, BTW, extremely unlikely to be relevant

 

[Richard]

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;306356

It seems to me, BTW, extremely unlikely to be relevant

Thanks for your reply. The code was 305356 which
is on the subject but does not solve my problem. Do
you have any ideas?

Richard