Subj : Redo ?
To   : Jean Parrot
From : Jeff Guerdat
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 11:02 am

On 09-11-05, JEAN PARROT said to JEFF GUERDAT:

JP>Jeff, a nice summer day to you !

Got back last night from marrying my son off.  Went to The Wawbeek (an
Adirondacks resort) near Tupper Lake/Saranac Lake this past Thursday.  Got
some kayaking in, watched the loons diving,, lots of pictures (nearly a GB!),
had a beach party rehearsal dinner for everyone who was already there and got
him married on Chapel Island in Upper Saranac Lake.  Lots of work but it was
worth it.  Had great (cool) weather most of the time.  I think I'll take a nap
today...

JP>A redo of XP Pro on my Athlon 1.2. It will not boot from CD,
JP>it boots semi-normally and stops on a window saying that vsiinit.dll
JP>and then vsdata.dll are missing as I might be missing a security
JP>something. This all happened as I was trying to read a Readme.doc
JP>from a Lexmark printer information file. I would click on it and it
JP>would open Word for a 1/2 second then clear the screen. I looked at
JP>the Properties for that .doc file and the path had in it
JP>"Notepad.exe" then the file name. I tried as much as I could to get
JP>it to open in Word with the ensuing results. Now, Word will not
JP>open, I can not repair Office either by reloading it over itself,
JP>nor delete it as the same window come up, it says after the end of
JP>the path for a required file that sr1.patch is missing. I forget
JP>when the patch to Office was done but it is quite a while ago.

That's quite a mouthful!  If I understand you properly, you are trying to read
a .doc file which tries to open in Notepad.  So, you then tried to boot from
CD to do a repair of the OS to no avail (errors about missing files) and even
Office won't repair/remove.

The first thing i'd do is to boot from CD and choose the repair console
option.  Use "chkdsk /p" from there to ensure there's no file system problems.
If you can't even get that far, I've had similar problems with a bootable CD
I made with with a slipstreamed version of XP SP2.  I created a new one using
Auto Streamer (http://www.reatogo.de/Auto-Streamer.htm) which works fine.  If
it's an original CD, there may be hardware issues.

You may also want to remove the hard drive and install it as a second drive in
a working system.  Scan it for file system problems, viruses and other
nasties.

If all this still fails, a fresh install will minimize the time/effort needed
to recover.  You could putz with this for a year and not come up with an
answer.

JP>I went into BIOS to boot from CD and try a Repair of XP but it
JP>still boots from D:\, the funny (???) part is that even if I shut
JP>down the system, it comes on screen with the same page all the time,
JP>a view of the Lexmark page where that .doc is located.

I'm missing something - how are you booting from D:?  Isn't that your CD?  As
for opening an Explorer window every time you boot or log in, there have been
similar problems I ran into with NT 4 that was caused by a registry problem.
However, that always opened the System32 folder, not something else.

JP>I will try again today to do a Repair but if it does not boot
JP>from CD, I guess that I am done. As it is, my BIOS is still set to
JP>boot from CD but it again booted as normal, if you overlook these
JP>strange windows. I am not blaming XP at all, the munging took place
JP>in Office or Lexmark information, methinks. Ouff ! BW is working
JP>fine and ZOC too. But, I can not refresh ZA....go search.

Sounds like the CD is not bootable due to a hardware failure or a media issue,
especially if it's a boot CD you created.  Try a different disc, if possible.

You may want to use msconfig.exe to see if there's something in the startup
process that you can turn off to eliminate the window opening for you
automatically.

JP>Thanks for getting this far in reading this post.

Whew!


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