Re: Repairing Usn Journal

In microsoft.public.win2000.registry Bob wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:20:30 -0400, Mark V
> <notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I could do an "In-Place Upgrade" which is essentially the same
>>> as starting over. But I will wait until I am forced to
>
>>Not really. Although "in-place upgrade" / "install over"
>>/repair installation" do reset a lot to as-installed, I would
>>not say they are essentially the same when used in a situation
>>such as this.
>
> I reinstalled a recent version of SP4 and now I can't do an IPU.
> The setup disk won't copy certain files with the extension
> ".icn", likely because they are not on the setup CD.
>
>>Hopefully you will find the problem one way or another.
>
> I found out that Norton Protection was not the culprit, so I
> reinstalled it, because it is useful. The rest is crap.
>
> I also found out that disabling the Write Cache does not help.
> As those Microsoft articles pointed out, the write cache problem
> was fixed with SP3 and anyway it only applies to SCSI drives - I
> have IDE drives.
>
> As mentioned above I reinstalled a recent version of SP4 so
> maybe there was something in there that fixed the problem.
>
> I did one other thing that may have solved this problem. I have
> a spam filter that fetches the mail on startup. It does this
> when the system is still installing itself, which may have
> caused the corruption. I turned that option off and now I am not
> experiencing any corruption whatsoever. I have rebooted at least
> 20 times since I made the changes, and not once did anything
> happen.
>
> I suppose I could turn the mail fetch back on at startup to see
> if that is really the cause, but I need to move on. I have spent
> far too much time chasing this problem.

Good to hear that "bottom line" all is working now as designed and
expected.
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