Re: Mystery files on HD
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:36:43 -0000
Jim
I do not know enough about Norton Ghost to help you further.
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Gerry
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Jim wrote:
Gerry,.
I am using Norton Ghost to image my C drive, the OS drive, and D
drive, The Application drive. I did have it set up to image the
C & D drive on two of my computers to an external USB HD plugged
into the system on which the problem exists. I have had
scheduled images made weekly with differential backups made daily
for the past 2 years. However, the last scheduled backups were
made just before the Old Motherboard went bad. I replaced the
MB, the CPU and the memory. Because the hardware changes were so
radical I had to reload Windows and all of the Applications
again. Since then Ghost has not worked and these mystery files
have showed up. The 2 computers are networked with a GB network
between the 2 systems with a switch and the switch outputs to a
router (10/100MB) to a cable modem for internet access.
I tried to run the XP installation in upgrade mode but it failed.
I am getting ready to try to reinstall XP and the applications
again. I am hoping that will solve the problem. I have checked
the MB BIOS for anything that may remotely cause this problem
with no success.
Thanks for your help in this matter. jim
JimHowever,
What program are you using for imaging? What are you imaging?
You refer to boot of my two systems. What two systems? Are you
merely comparing boot times for two computers?
If you are using two computers are they networked or merely
sharing a router? Are files shared?
Have you looked in the System and Application logs in Event
Viewer for Warning and Error Reports? Please post copies. No
Information Reports please.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the
meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and
Description are important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which
you should double click for further information. You can copy
using copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is
no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes
only)
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which
appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and
close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste
into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste
after exiting from Event Viewer.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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Stourport, England
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"Jim" <neillm2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gerry, I checked your suggestions and they were as you said
they should be. Still no extensions. I also checked to make
sure that Remote assistance is disabled. It appeared to be;
however, when I checked the advanced tab I found it to be
enabled. I disabled it and
rebooted. Wheb the system came back up I found the remote
assistance
to be enabled again. I ran the Boot log option on my last
reboot and
will now start checking on the files that have loaded during
boot up.
The mystery files are also files, not folders, residing in the
root of
the windows directory.
One thing I have noticed during Boot up of my 2 systems. The
one with
the mystery files Boots at least twice as fast as my other
system. The problem system is using the other system as an
internet gateway and that may account for some of the boot time
diferences.I
am getting the impression that generating 16GB of files should
take quite a bit of time. I am beginning to believe that they
are some kind of dummy file.
Another responder, nass, asked about my system and if it has
been really slow. Sometimes file transfers are slow. But not
always.The system is an Athlon 64X2 4200 on an ECS NForce4M-A
motherboard. I use
the Kerio Personal Firewall and NOD32 Antivirus. The file path
is C:
\windows\1 and so on. I have right clicked the file and no
Opens with
program is listed. It's file type is a system file. The hidden
attribute box is checked and dimmed. I checked the URL
referenced in
your response and am not sure of what it means.
I am going to start through the boot log in a few hours.
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